Stanley N. Cohen is professor of genetics and of medicine and former chair of genetics at Stanford University. In 1973, Cohen and Herbert Boyer, of the University of California, San Francisco, invented the technique of DNA cloning, which allowed genes to be transplanted between different biological species. Their discovery signalled the birth of genetic engineering.
His numerous honors and awards include the National Medal of Science, the National Medal of Technology and the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Research Award. Cohen is past president of the San Francisco Bay-Area based Society of Medical Friends of Wine. He skis, sails and plays the five-string banjo.
