Marilyn Kozak, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Date of Birth: 08-Jul-1943
Place of Birth: Akron, Ohio, United States
Profession: biochemist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Marilyn Kozak
- Marilyn S.
- Kozak Ph.D.
- is a Professor of Biochemistry at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
- She was previously at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey before the school was merged.
- She was awarded a Ph.D in microbiology by Johns Hopkins University studying the synthesis of the Bacteriophage MS2, advised by Daniel Nathans.
- In her original faculty job proposal, she sought to study the mechanism of eukaryotic translation initiation, a problem long thought to have already been solved by Joan Steitz.
- While in the Department of Biological Sciences at University of Pittsburgh, she published a series of studies that established the scanning model of translation initiation and the Kozak consensus sequence.
- Her current research interests are unknown as her last publication was in 2008.
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