Abstract
Edmund Klein, MD, a dermatologist and pioneer in cancer immunotherapy who received the highest award in American medicine, the Lasker Award, died of complications of diabetes mellitus and congestive heart failure on July 24, 1999, in Buffalo, New York, at the age of 77 years. The son of a Viennese cantor, Dr Klein parlayed an acceptance letter at an English high school into a British visa, allowing his timely departure from Vienna as a 17-year-old secondary school student shortly after the Anschluss. After entering England without money, means of support, or a place to reside, he successfully obtained sponsorship so that his sister could flee as well, but was unable to help his doomed parents. This Viennese-born, British-, Canadian-, and American-educated physician received an amazing total of 36 scholarships for academic proficiency. He was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society in 1949 at the University of Toronto Medical School, where he began his academic medical research career under the supervision of Charles H. Best (co-discoverer, with Banting, of insulin).
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