Sydney Cohen CBE FRS (18 September 1921 – 25 July 2017) was Professor of Chemical Pathology, Guy's Hospital Medical School, and an authority on malaria.
[1] He was educated at King Edward VII School, Johannesburg, and at Witwatersrand University, graduating MB BCh in 1944.
That same year he left South Africa to join the National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, where “in a very productive six-year period he carried out basic studies on the metabolism of plasma proteins in rabbits, baboons and humans.”[2] Cohen gained his PhD from the University of London, in 1959.
[4] An in vitro assay was devised for analysing the mechanism of malaria immunity and the variant specificity of protective antibody was demonstrated.
That year he married Deirdre Maureen Ann Boyd, who had assisted him at Guy’s, and later they moved to St Andrews, on Scotland’s east coast, where he was a member of the Royal and Ancient golf club; they lived four minutes' walk away.