Zanvil A. Cohn

Who was Zanvil A. Cohn?

Zanvil Alexander Cohn was a cell biologist, immunologist, professor at Rockefeller University. There Cohn had been the Henry G. Kunkel Professor for seven years. Cohn was senior physician at the university as well as vice president for medical affairs. Until two years before his death, he also served as principal investigator of the Irvington Institute for Medical Research.

A native of New York City, Cohn graduated from Bates College in Maine in 1948 and then Harvard Medical School. He trained at Massachusetts General Hospital. Before joining the Rockefeller Institute, now University, in 1958, he was a researcher at Walter Reed Army Institute with the rank of captain in the United States Army Medical Corps.