Stanley Falkow

Stanley Falkow, PhD, (24 January, 1934 – 5 May, 2018) was an American microbiologist and a professor of microbiology and immunology at Stanford University School of Medicine.National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Stanley Falkow, Ph.D.  Retrieved on July 4, 2007 He was known for his study of how infectious microbes and host cells interact to cause disease at the molecular level.The Double Helix NFID to Honor Dr. Falkow  Retrieved on July 4, 2007 He created molecular Koch's postulates, which have guided the study of the microbial determinants of infectious diseases since the late 1980s.Falkow S (1988).  "Molecular Koch's postulates applied to microbial pathogenicity."  Rev Infect Dis 10(Suppl 2):S274-S276.

Falkow died on May 5, 2018 at the age of 84 at his home in Portola Valley, California of complications from myelodysplastic syndrome.

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