| Fred S. Rosen | |
| Birth Date: | May 25, 1930 |
| Death Place: | Boston, MA |
| Nationality: | American |
| Field: | Paediatrics Immunology |
| Work Institution: | Harvard Medical School Boston Children's Hospital |
| Prizes: | E. Mead Johnson Award (1971) AAI-Steinman Award for Human Immunology Research Award (2005, first recipient) |
Fred Saul Rosen (May 25, 1930 – May 21, 2005) was a pediatrician and immunologist at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital.[1]
Rosen was born in Newark, NJ. He received his bachelor's degree from Lafayette College and his MD from Case Western Reserve University. He moved to Boston in 1955 to begin a pathology residency at Children's where he worked with Charles Janeway and Sidney Farber.[2] He began an immunology fellowship in 1959. He and Janeway pioneered the study of primary immunodeficiency diseases at Boston Children's Hospital.[3]
Rosen discovered, early in his career, the cause of X-linked hyper-IgM syndrome. He also worked on X-linked agammaglobulinaemia. He published over 300 papers on his research.[2]
Rosen was the head of the division of immunology at Boston Children's Hospital from 1968 to 1985.[4] In 1987, he moved to the CBR Institute for Biomedical Research at Harvard University.[4]
Rosen spoke French, Italian Spanish, German, Italian, Arabic and Russian, and traveled extensively.[2]
Rosen died of cancer in 2005. He had no surviving family members.[4]