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Kohn, Kurt William was born in 1930 in Vienna, Austria, SCIENCE/ENGINEERING0. United States citizen.
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Kurt William Kohn
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Kurt William Kohn, Austrian, American Pharmacologist. Recipient Borden Research prize Columbia College Physicians and Surgeons, 1956, Tagnon Lectureship Series award Foundation Pour la Chimiotherpie Anticanceereuse, Brussels, 1987, Outstanding Svc. medal National Institutes of Health, 1988; Frederick S. Philips Memorial lecturer Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, New York, 1990.
Education
Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry and Physics, Harvard College, 1952; Doctor of Medicine, Columbia College, 1956; Doctor of Philosophy in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Harvard University, 1965.
Career
Intern, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City, 1956-1957;
clinical associate clinical pharmacology section, National Cancer Institute, 1957-1960;
senior investigator Laboratory Chemical Pharmacology, National Cancer Institute, 1962-1967;
head molecular pharmacology section Laboratory Chemical Pharmacology, National Cancer Institute, 1967-1969;
chief Laboratory Molecular Pharmacology, National Cancer Institute, since 1969. Laboratory instructor department physiology George Washington University, 1958-1960, lecturer, 1988. Faculty Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences, National Institutes of Health, since 1968.
Lecturer Medical College Virginia, 1986. Member technical review committee developmental therapeutics program DCT, National Cancer Institute, 1963-1988, member decision network committee developmental therapeutics program, 1966-1988, chairman promotion and tenure review committee, 1982-1983. Member breast cancer task force treatment com.Nat.
Cancer Institute, 1976-1978, member steering committee dvisn. cancer cause and prevention, 1978-1979. Organizing committee Workshop on Short Term Tests for Carcinogens and Mutagens, National Bureau Studies, Gaithersburg, Maryland., 1984, Session on Topoisomerases as Targets of Anticancer Drug Action, Gordon Conference on Chemotherapy and Cancer, 1985, Confs. on DNA Topoisomerases in Cancer Chemotherapy, New York University Medical Center, since 1985. Chairman, lecturer 14thInternat.
Cancer Congress, Budapest, Hungary, 1986, others.
Achievements
Membership
Commissioned officer United States Public Health Service, 1957-1995. Member American Association for Cancer Research (organizing committee national meeting 1987-1988, Bruce M. Cain Memorial award 1996), American Association Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology.
Connections
Married; two children.
Awards
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Recipient Borden Research prize Columbia College Physicians and Surgeons, 1956, Tagnon Lectureship Series award Foundation Pour la Chimiotherpie Anticanceereuse, Brussels, 1987, Outstanding Svc. medal National Institutes of Health, 1988. Frederick S. Philips Memorial lecturer Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, New York, 1990.Recipient Borden Research prize Columbia College Physicians and Surgeons, 1956, Tagnon Lectureship Series award Foundation Pour la Chimiotherpie Anticanceereuse, Brussels, 1987, Outstanding Svc. medal National Institutes of Health, 1988. Frederick S. Philips Memorial lecturer Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, New York, 1990.