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My Take
Rosenberg is the kind of figure I find genuinely heroic, not in a flashy way but in a stubborn, decades-deep way. A Harvard-trained surgeon who bet his career on the then-radical idea that the body's own immune system could be turned against cancer, he kept grinding long before immunotherapy became fashionable. The wall of honors, from the Coley Award to the Massry and Keio prizes, only confirms what I admire most: relentless patience in service of saving lives. I respect researchers who chase a hard truth for forty years more than almost anyone, and he sits squarely in that company.
Overview
Steven A. Rosenberg (born 2 August 1940) is an American cancer researcher and surgeon, chief of Surgery at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland and a Professor of Surgery at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences and the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Steven Rosenberg
- Name (Japanese)
- スティーヴン・ローゼンバーグ
- Reading
- すてぃーゔん・ろーぜんばーぐ
- Born
- August 2, 1940 (age 85)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Leo / Dragon
- Origin
- New York City, New York, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- oncologist / university teacher / surgeon / immunologist
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Harvard University
Awards & achievements
- 2011 William B. Coley Award
- 2014 Massry Prize
- 2012 Keio Medical Science Prize
- 1988 Leopold Griffuel Prize
- 2016 Novartis Prize for Clinical Immunology
- 2015 Fellow of the AACR Academy
- 2023 Clarivate Citation Laureates
- 2018 Albany Medical Center Prize
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.