Bio Note: Irun R. Cohen, MD, was trained as a physician at Northwestern University Medical School and did a residency in pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He has been the Mauerberger Professor of Immunology; Director, European Collaboration on T Cell Vaccination; Director, Robert Koch-Minerva Center for Research in Autoimmune Diseases; Director of the National Institute of Biotechnology in the Negev; among others. Cohen was awarded the Robert Koch Prize, the Teva Founders Prize, the AESKU Prize and an UFIS Prize, among others, and is the recipient of a Doktor der Medizin, honoris causa from the University of Hamburg. He is a highly cited researcher with over 550 publications, including the book Tending Adam’s Garden: Evolving the Cognitive Immune Self (2000).

Affiliation: Weizmann Institute, Israel

Homepage: http://www.weizmann.ac.il/immunology/iruncohen/home.html