Stanley J. Korsmeyer, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Stanley J. Korsmeyer

American oncologist

Date of Birth: 08-Jun-1950

Date of Death: 31-Mar-2005

Profession: university teacher, oncologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Stanley J. Korsmeyer

  • Stanley Joel Korsmeyer (8 June 1950 – 31 March 2005) was an American oncologist.
  • Through his studies of apoptosis, Korsmeyer helped develop the concepts of the role of programmed cell death in carcinogenesis.
  • In 1989 Korsmeyer was among the first to confirm that a particular form of lymphoma arose in certain B cells because they had a genetic flaw that caused them to overexpress a gene, Bcl-2, that was involved in the body's normal process for getting rid of them.
  • He then conducted a number of studies defining the activity of a number of related genes and their role in apoptosis.
  • Korsmeyer obtained a medical doctorate from the University of Illinois at Chicago, completed a residency at the University of California Hospitals in California, and then trained at the National Cancer Institute under Thomas A.
  • Waldmann and Philip Leder.
  • He then became a tenured professor, first at Washington University and then at Harvard at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, working within the Howard Hughes Medical Institute while at both universities.
  • He was widely respected in the field and received numerous prestigious cancer research awards, including the Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Cancer Research and the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation Charles S.
  • Mott Prize.
  • He was an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, and the American Philosophical Society.
  • The American Society for Clinical Investigation has established a scientific award in his name.
  • In 2000 he was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize by Columbia University.
  • He has been credited as the author of nearly 20 articles published since his death from cancer in 2005.

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