Samuel Strober (May 8, 1940-February 11, 2022 (aged 81)[1]) was a biomedical researcher and inventor best known for his work on the elimination of the need for lifelong immune suppressive drugs in organ transplant patients.[2]
Samuel Strober | |
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| Died | February 11, 2022 |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Columbia College Harvard Medical School |
| Occupation | Physician |
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| Medical career | |
| Institutions | Stanford Medical School |
Strober was born in Brooklyn, New York, on May 8, 1940, and received his bachelor's degree from Columbia College in 1961,[1][3] and his MD from the Harvard Medical School[4] in 1966. He also studied at Massachusetts General[5] and Stanford University Hospitals[6] and the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology[7] at Oxford University.
He was chief of the Division of Immunology and Rheumatology[8][9] at the Stanford University School of Medicine (1979–1997); a co-founder of a biotechnology company, Dendreon, that developed the first FDA approved cancer vaccination; President of the Clinical Immunology Society (1996);[10] and chairman of the Board of Directors of the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology.[11][12][13] He also co-founded Medeor Therapeutics.[14]
Personal life
editHis first wife is feminist economist Myra Strober, who decided to keep the Strober last name after she remarried.[15][16]
References
edit- ^ a b Goldman, Bruce. "Samuel Strober, pioneering transplantation immunologist, dies at 81". Stanford Medicine News Center.
- ^ "In Memoriam: Sam Strober, MD". American Society of Transplantation. February 22, 2022. Archived from the original on April 19, 2022. Retrieved July 6, 2022.
- ^ "Obituaries". Columbia College Today. 2022-06-17. Archived from the original on 2022-06-23. Retrieved 2022-06-23.
- ^ hms.harvard.edu/
- ^ "Massachusetts General Hospital". Massachusetts General Hospital. Archived from the original on 2022-02-09. Retrieved 2022-02-12.
- ^ "Stanford Health Care (SHC) – (formerly Stanford Hospital & Clinics)".
- ^ "Sir William Dunn School of Pathology |". www.path.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2017-02-26. Retrieved 2017-03-06.
- ^ "Research - Immunology & Rheumatology - Stanford Medicine". Archived from the original on 2016-04-21. Retrieved 2016-06-22.
- ^ Bruce Goldman. "Stanford Medicine professor James Fries, proponent of healthy aging, dies at 83". Stanford Medicine News Center. Archived from the original on 2021-12-30. Retrieved 2022-07-06.
- ^ "Clinical Immunology Society". Archived from the original on 2016-06-29. Retrieved 2016-06-22.
- ^ "LIAI Board of Directors Samuel Strober, MD Board - La Jolla Institute ..." yumpu.com. Archived from the original on 2022-02-12. Retrieved 2022-02-12.
- ^ "board of directors". La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology. Archived from the original on 2007-12-29.
- ^ "Board of Directors". La Jolla Institute for Immunology. Archived from the original on 2022-02-12. Retrieved 2022-02-12.
- ^ "Scientific Founders". Medeor Therapeutics. Archived from the original on 2022-03-01. Retrieved 2022-07-06.
- ^ Myra Strober (2016). Sharing the Work: What My Family and Career Taught Me about Breaking Through (and Holding the Door Open for Others). John Donahoe (forward). MIT Press. pp. 181–182. ISBN 9780262034388. Archived from the original on 2022-02-14. Retrieved 2022-02-12.
- ^ Ghent, Janet Silver (May 27, 2016). "Memoir covers trailblazing life of Stanford professor". Archived from the original on February 12, 2022. Retrieved February 12, 2022.