National Health Data from the Robert Koch Institute

Robert Koch

Robert Koch: The Grandfather of Cloning?

This year marks the centenary of Robert Koch's Nobel Prize for discovering the cause of tuberculosis. Koch was also the first scientist to isolate the anthrax and cholera microbes. Yet perhaps one of his greatest contributions to biology is the least appreciated: his method for propagating individual colonies of bacteria on plates, a technique that came to be called cloning.

Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute Honors Professor Robert A. Schwartz

Kolkata’s premier cancer center, welcomed a distinguished visitor, Professor Robert A. Schwartz, on December 13, 2015 [Figure 1]. The institute was formally inaugurated by Professor Madam J. Curie in 1950 and is a cancer treatment facility with faculty also active in basic and clinical research. Professor Schwartz was received by Professor Jaydip Biswas MBBS, MS, FRCS Edin, FACS, who is Institu...

Early clinical pathologists: Robert Koch (1843-1910).

The National Institute of Mental Health Report

This article reports some of the most promising ideas to emerge from a review conducted by the National Institute of Mental Health of the achievements and prospects for research on the prevention of mental disorders. These ideas are organized around 3 conceptual hubs: the development and transformation of biological and social risk and protective factors across the life span, classifying and re...