RARE! "Cancer Immunology" Eva Klein Hand Signed Announcement Todd Mueller COA

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Eva Klein
(born
Eva Fischer
; January 22, 1925) is a Hungarian-Swedish scientist born in Hungary in 1925. Klein has worked at the
Karolinska Institute
since leaving Hungary in 1947. She is regarded as a founder of cancer immunology. 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. Eva Fischer was born on 22 January 1925 in
Budapest
, Hungary, to a well-to-do Jewish family. She attended private school, with an interest in sports, theater, and science (inspired by the life and work of
Marie Curie
). Her career choices were constrained by the political situation, with worsening anti-semitism and persecution when Hungary was occupied by Germany after she finished secondary school. Fischer attended medical school at the
University of Budapest
, and in 1944/45 she and several members of her family survived by hiding at the Histology Institute of the University of Budapest.
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They were helped by
János Szirmai
, including forging documents. Szirmai was honored as one of the Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem. Fischer broke from her medical studies to act in the theater, but returned to medicine. Eva married another medical student
George Klein
, leaving Hungary to live in Sweden in 1947. She completed her medical degree at the
Karolinska Institute
in Stockholm, Sweden in 1955.
In addition, Klein has been awarded honorary degrees from the
University of Nebraska
(in 1993) and the
Ohio State University
(in 2003). Klein became an assistant professor at the
Karolinska Institute
in 1948, and achieved tenure in 1979. She established her own areas of research from 1948 encouraged by Torbjörn Caspersson from Karolinska's Department of Cell Research and Genetics, while also collaborating closely with her husband throughout her career.Eva Klein has published over 500 papers, and served as an editor of the journal,
Seminars in Cancer Biology