Dr. Sidney Cohen, assistant in Medicine and Bacteriology at the Medical School, has won the Louis E. Kirstein Fellowship at the Harvard Medical School, the University announced yesterday.

Other awards were as follows:

Kenneth T. Bird 4M, of Watertown, Mass., was awarded the James C. Melvin scholarship.

National Scholarship renewals were awarded to James S. Clarke 2M, of La Grange, Ill.; Martin E. Flipse 2M, of Douglaston, L.I., N.Y.; Winsor C. Schmidt 2M, of Rye, N.Y.; Louis E. Ward 3M, of Mt. Vernon, Ill.; Allan L. Friedlich Jr. 3M, of New York, N.Y.; Glen R. Leymaster 4M, of Aurora, Neb.; Clarke T. Case 4M, of Pyinmana, Burma; and Laurence G. Wesson Jr. 4M, of Boston, Mass.