Ramzi S. Cotran (1932-2000) was a pathologist and former president of the

United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology The United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, abbreviated USCAP, is the largest North American organization of pathologists. It is the publisher to two major pathology journals, ''Laboratory Investigation A medical laboratory or clinica ...

(USCAP) and the

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(ASIP). He was chair of pathology at Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital and Children's Hospital Medical Center, as well as the Frank B. Mallory Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and a member of the National Academy of Science's Institute of Medicine. The Ramzi Cotran Young Investigator Award is presented each year by USCAP to a pathologist in recognition of a body of investigative work which has contributed significantly to the diagnosis and understanding of human disease. The ASIP Cotran Early Career Investigator Award is presented each year by ASIP, and recognizes early career investigators who direct independent experimental pathology research programs that are focused on improvement of the understanding of the conceptual basis of disease. Cotran was born in

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(then in Palestine) and studied at the

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before moving to the U.S.

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ASIP biography
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cotran, Ramzi 1932 births 2000 deaths American pathologists Emigrants from Mandatory Palestine to the United States People from Haifa American University of Beirut alumni Palestinian pathologists Members of the National Academy of Medicine