Eva Klein
![Eva Klein with her husband, [[George Klein (biologist)|George Klein]], Stockholm, April 1979](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/Nci-vol-8175-300_George_Klein.jpg)
Her life and career choices as a young Jewish woman were constrained by discrimination, and she survived the late stages of German occupation in hiding. A medical doctor with a PhD in biology, she has worked in cancer immunology and virology.
In the 1960s, she led the discovery of natural killer cells and developing Burkitt's lymphoma cell lines.
In 1975, the U.S. Cancer Research Institute established the William B. Coley Award for Distinguished Research in Basic and Tumor Immunology. The inaugural award was shared by 16 scientists considered to be "founders of cancer immunology", including Eva and George Klein. Their award noted their "discoveries of tumor-specific antigens in the mouse, to the most comprehensive immunological analysis of a human cancer, Burkitt's lymphoma".
She has pursued her own lines of work as well as working closely with her husband, George Klein. They are both regarded as founders of cancer immunology. They have three children. Provided by Wikipedia
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3by Eahsan Rasul, Daniel Salamon, Noemi Nagy, Benjamin Leveau, Ferenc Banati, Kalman Szenthe, Anita Koroknai, Janos Minarovits, George Klein, Eva KleinGet full text
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4by Juliane Burghardt, Eva Klein, Elmar Brähler, Mareike Ernst, Astrid Schneider, Susan Eckerle, Marie Astrid Neu, Arthur Wingerter, Nicole Henninger, Marina Panova‐Noeva, Jürgen Prochaska, Philipp Wild, Manfred Beutel, Jörg FaberGet full text
Published 2019-04-01
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