Max D. Cooper

Max Dale Cooper (born 1933 in Hazelhurst) is a noted immunologist who spent several years as a Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, Pathology and Microbiology at UAB Medical School. He is a past president of the Clinical Immunology Society (1994) and of the American Institute of Immunologists (1988).

Cooper earned his medical degree from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1957 and postdoctoral training in allergy and immunology at the University of California, San Francisco. Beginning in 1963 he conducted research with Robert A. Good at the University of Minnesota, helping to explain the nature of the human immune system. He came to UAB in 1967.

At UAB, Cooper worked with graduate student Paul Kincade to discover certain particularities of immune function. During a 1974 sabbatical at University College in London he worked with Martin Raff and John Owen on B-cell precursors in bone marrow and fetal liver tissue. He has conducted numerous clinical studies on cell differentiation abnormalities, immunodeficiency and lymphoid malignancies.

Coopper is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Academy of Sciences. He is also an investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. In addition to authoring scores of scientific papers, he has served as editor for numerous immunological journals. In 1994 he was given the 3M Life Sciences Award and the Sandoz Prize in Immunology.

In November 2007 Cooper was recruited to Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, where his daughter's family resides.

References

• Spencer, Thomas (November 27, 2007) "Top UAB scientist moving to Emory." Birmingham News.