Sydney Cohen CBE

Order of the British Empire

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, FRS (born 18 September 1921) is Emeritus Professor of Chemical Pathology, Guy's Hospital

Guy's Hospital

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 Medical School and an authority on malaria

Malaria

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He was educated at King Edward VIIth School, Johannesburg and at Witwatersrand and London

University of London

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 universities. His son, Roger Cohen

Roger Cohen

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, is a columnist for The New York Times

The New York Times

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and International Herald Tribune

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Career

• EMS, UK, 1944-45
• Lecturer, Department of Physiology, Witwatersrand University, 1947-53
• Scientific Staff, National Institute for Medical Research
  National Institute for Medical Research
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  , London, 1954-60
• Reader, Department of Immunology, St. Mary's Hospital Medical School, 1960-65
• Professor of Chemical Pathology, Guy's Hospital Medical School, 1965-86.

Other positions held

He was a member of the Medical Research Council

Medical Research Council (UK)

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 (MRC) and chairman of its Tropical Medicine Research Board, 1974-76. He was the chairman of the World Health Organization

World Health Organization

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 Scientific Group on Immunity to Malaria, 1976-81, and a member of the WHO expert adv. panel on malaria, 1977-89.
He helped to found the Royal College of Pathologists

Royal College of Pathologists

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 in 1964. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society

Royal Society

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 and awarded the CBE in 1978. He was on the Council of the Royal Society, 1981-83, and the Royal Society Assessor on the MRC, 1982-84.

He retired to St. Andrews, where he is a member of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club.