Education
Harvard University.
Harvard University.
He made major gains in the studies of the aging process with a discovery of a protein known as amyloid, and played a key role in the fight against arthritis. The New York Times called Franklin "an international authority on the human immune system". He discovered heavy chain disease, one type of which is named after him (Franklin"s disease).
He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University in 1946 and his medical degree from the New York University School of Medicine in 1950.
1955 research associate at the Rockefeller Institute
1958 assistant professor of medicine at New York University
1968 full professor of medicine at North.Y.U
1974 elected president of the American Society for Clinical Investigation
1979 elected to the National Academy of Sciences
1982 dies of a brain tumor, 54 years old.
Franklin was born in Berlin, Germany in 1928 and immigrated to the United States of America in 1939 as an escapee from Nazism.
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Franklin was a professor of medicine at the New York University School of Medicine, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, president of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, and director of Irvington House Institute.