50th
Anniversary
Postdoctoral
Fellowship Program
Research Heroes
Alan
S. Cohen, M.D., Boston, MA
 Postdoctoral
Fellowship (1956-1959): Massachusetts General Hospital
Current
Position: Editor-in-Chief, Amyloid: The Journal of
Protein Folding Disorders
Contribution:
Identified amyloidosis; characterized cardiac,
pulmonary, skin, and other organs in the disease;
demonstrated the role of medicine and other medications;
performed the first renal and liver transplants to treat
the condition.
 Philip
L. Cohen, M.D., Philadelphia, PA
Postdoctoral
Fellowship (1976-1978): University of Texas Health
Science Center at Dallas
Current
Position: Professor of Medicine, University of
Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Contribution:
Increased understanding of the cellular mechanisms that
contribute to autoimmunity in autoimmune “lupus’
mice.
Joseph
E. Craft, M.D., New Haven, CT
 Postdoctoral
Fellowship (1983-1985): Yale University
Current
Position: Professor of Medicine and Immunobiology
and Chief of the Section of Rheumatology at Yale
Contribution:
Described certain autoantibodies and dissected the role
of T cells in disease pathogenesis in systemic lupus
erythematosus.
Bruce
N. Cronstein, M.D., New York, NY
Postdoctoral
Fellowship (1984-1987): New York University School of
Medicine
Current
Position: Professor of Medicine and Pathology,
Director, Division of Clinical Pathology, Associate
Chairman of Medical Research, New York University School
of Medicine
Contribution:
Helped to delineate molecular pathways of adenosine
metabolism and how it relates to the anti-inflammatory
effects of methotrexate as a therapeutic.
Mary
K. Crow, M.D., New York, NY
 Postdoctoral
Fellowship (1981-1984): Rockefeller University
Current
Position: Professor of Medicine, Weill Medical
college of Cornell University; Senior Scientist Hospital
for Special Surgery; Professor, Cornell University
Graduate School of Medical Science
Contribution:
Characterized the requirements for activation of a
subset of immune cells (CD4+ T cells) and the mechanisms
used by those cells to drive autoimmunity.
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