English Names
Ramzi S Cotran
Original Names
Ramzi Suliman Cotran
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Date, Country, and City of Birth
December 7, 1932, Haifa, Palestine
Date City of Death
October 23, 2000, Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
History of Life
Ramzi Suliman Cotran was born in Haifa to an Arab Palestinian family during the British Mandate rule over Palestine (1918–1948). His father Suliman was a successful businessman who owned a car dealership and real estate in Haifa and was a leader of the Greek Orthodox Christian community there. Suliman was the founder of the Arab Orthodox School in Haifa which thrives to this day. His mother Fadwa (nee Khoury) was a homemaker who raised five children. Cotran had three brothers and one sister. His oldest brother Taufik, born in 1926, studied law in England and later became a jurist and a Supreme Court judge in Britain and the Commonwealth countries including Sudan, Uganda, Lesotho, and Belize. He was named a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the...
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References and Further Reading
Bevilacqua, M. P., Pober, J. S., Mendrick, D. L., Cotran, R. S., & Gimbrone Jr., M. A. (1987). Identification of an inducible endothelial-leukocyte adhesion molecule. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 84, 9238–9242.
Buja, L. M. (2001). In memoriam: Ramzi S Cotran. Circulation, 103, 482.
Cotran, R. S., & Majno, G. (1964). A light and electron microscopic analysis of vascular injury. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 27(116), 750–764.
Cotran, R. S., Vivaldi, E., Zangwill, D. P., & Kass, E. H. (1963). Retrograde Proteus pyelonephritis in rats. Bacteriologic, pathologic and fluorescent-antibody studies. The American Journal of Pathology, 45(1), 1–31.
Gimbrone, M., Cotran, R. S., & Folkman, J. (1974). Human vascular endothelial cells in culture. Growth and DNA synthesis. The Journal of Cell Biology, 60(3), 678–684.
Gimbrone, M., Barsamian, E., Karnovsky, M., Kumar, V., Longtine, J., Robbins, S., Sackstein, R., & von Lichtenberg, F. (2003, July 17). Memorial minute: Ramzi S. Cotran. Harvard University Gazette. http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2003/07/memorial-minute-ramzi-s-cotra/. Accessed 12 Dec 2016.
Saxon, W. (2000, October 27). Dr. Ramzi S. Cotran, 67, of Harvard, long a leading pathologist. New York Times. www.nytimes.com/.../dr-ramzi-s-cotran-67-of-harvard-long-a-leading-pathologist.htl. Accessed 12 Dec 2016.
Venkatachalam, M. A., Karnovsky, M., & Cotran, R. S. (1969). Glomerular permeability. Ultrastructural studies in experimental nephrosis using horseradish peroxidase as a tracer. The Journal of Experimental Medicine, 130(2), 381–399.
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Dr. Paul R Cotran kindly provided details about the family of his father Dr. Ramzi Cotran, reviewed the article, and provided the images. Dr. Frederick Schoen also contributed images.
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Amr, S.S. (2016). Cotran, Ramzi Suliman (1932–2000). In: van Krieken, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Pathology. Encyclopedia of Pathology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28845-1_4004-1
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