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Up for sale a RARE! "Cancer Immunology" Eva Klein Hand Signed Announcement. 

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 lymphoma cell

lines. In 1975, the U.S. Cancer Research 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, 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. 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

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