Laureates of the Japan Prize
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Max Cooper, Ph.D.
- Nationality:
USA
- Date of Birth:
31 August 1933
Outline of Achievements
The 2018 Japan Prize
Awards
| 1966 |
The Founder’s Award of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine |
| 1990 |
Sandoz Prize for Immunology |
| 1990 |
3M Life Sciences Award |
| 1994 |
American College of Physicians Science Award |
| 2000 |
AAI Lifetime Achievement Award |
| 2006 |
AAI-Dana Foundation Award for Human Immunology Research |
| 2008 |
Avery-Landsteiner Prize |
| 2008 |
Award for Distinguished Research in the Biomedical Sciences from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) |
| 2010 |
Robert Koch Prize |
| 2012 |
AAI Excellence in Mentoring Award |
Education
| 1953 |
Pre-Medicine undergraduate, University of Mississippi |
| 1955 |
University of Mississippi Medical School |
| 1957 |
M.D., Tulane University Medical School, New Orleans |
| 1958-1960 |
Residency in Pediatrics, Tulane University |
| 1961-1962 |
Allergy and Immunology Fellow, University of California at San Francisco |
| 1962-1963 |
Instructor in Pediatrics, Tulane University |
Work Career
| 1963-1966 |
Medical Fellow Specialist/Instructor, University of Minnesota
(Robert Good’s laboratory) |
| 1966 |
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota |
| 1967-2008 |
Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham |
| 1973-1974 |
Visiting Scientist, University College London |
| 1984-1985 |
Visiting Scientist, Institut D’Embryologie, Nogent-Sur-Marne & Institut Pasteur, Paris, France |
| 1987-2008 |
Professor of Medicine and Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham |
| 1988-1989 |
President, American Association of Immunologists |
| 1988-2006 |
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Alabama at Birmingham |
| 2008- |
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Emory University School of Medicine |
Affiliation
- Emory University School of Medicine
Publications, Thesis
- Max D. Cooper, Raymond D. A. Peterson and Robert A. Good, Delineation of the Thymic and Bursa Lymphoid Systems in the Chicken, Nature Vol. 205 pp.143-146, 1965
- Max D. Cooper, Raymond D. A. Peterson, Mary Ann South and Robert A. Good, The Functions of the Thymus System and the Bursa System in the Chicken, The Journal of Experimental Medicine Vol. 123 pp.75-102, 1966
- Max D. Cooper, The early history of B cells, Nature Reviews Immunology Vol. 15 pp.191-197, 2015
