The discovery of angiogenesis inhibitors: A new class of drugs
VITA:
Judah Folkman, M.D.
Born February 24, 1933 in Cleveland, Ohio.
Address:
Children's Hospital, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115.
Education:
1953 B.A. Ohio State University, cum laude;
1957 M.D. Harvard Medical School, magna cum laude.
Military:
1960-1962 Lt., US Navy, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, MD.
Residency Training:
Massachusetts General H Senior and Chief Surgical Resident. 1969
Chief Resident in Pediatric Surgery, Philadelphia Children's Hospital, Philadelphia.
Certification:
1957 Massachusetts License Registration.
1966 Diplomate, American Board of Surgery.
1968 American Boaard of Thoracic Surgery.
1974 Certificate of Special Competence in Pediatric Surgery.
Academic Appointments:
1965-1966 Instructor in Surgery, Harvard Medical School.
1966-1967 Associate Director, Sears Surgical Laboratory, Boston City Hospital.
1967 Associate in Surgery, Harvard Medical School.
1967 Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School.
1968 Julia Dyckman Andrus Professor of Pediatric Surgery, Harvard Medical School. 1979 Professor of Pediatric Surgery, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. 1980-1994 Professor of Anatomy and Cellular Biology, Harvard Medical School.
1994 Professor of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School.
Hospital Appointments:
1965-1966 Assistant Surgeon, Boston City Hospital.
Surgeon-in-Chief for 14 years from 1969 to 1981, Children's Hospital Boston.
1981- Senior Associate in Surgery and Director, Surgical Research Laboratory, Children's Hospital, Boston.
Awards:
1953: Phi Beta Kappa.
1957: Alpha Omega Alpha; Boylston Medical Prize; Soma Weiss Award; Borden Undergraduate Research Award in Medicine.
1965-1970: Research Career Development Award, National Cancer Institute.
1974: Lila Gruber Award, American Academy of Dermatology.
1975: Boylston Medical Society Award Outstanding Clinical Teacher Harvard Med. Sch.
1982: Simon M. Shubitz Cancer Prize, University of Chicago Medical Center.
1985: Lucy Wortham James Basic Research Award, the Society of Surgical Oncology; C.H.A. Clowes Memorial Award, American Association for Cancer Research.
1986: Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
1987: George Ledlie Prize, Harvard University.
1989: Sheen Award, Amer. College of Surgeons.
1990: Elected, National Academy of Sciences citation, For founding the field of angiogenesis research; Elected, Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.
1991: Gairdner Foundation International Award, Canada.
1992: 3M Life Sciences Award, FASEB;
Christopher Columbus Discovery Award in Biomedical Research, NIH; Wolf Foundation Prize in Medicine, Israel; Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award, World Congress on Cell and Tissue Culture; The Mike Hogg Award, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, 1993: Honorary Award, American Association of Plastic Surgeons; Louis and Artur Lucian Award for Research in Circulatory Diseases, McGill University; New England Inventor of the Year Award; Medal of Honor for Basic Science, American Cancer Society; Glorney-Raisbeck Award (Cardiology), New York Academy of Medicine. 1994: Melvin L. Samuels Award, University of Texas; Chester Stock Award, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Abraham White Scientific Achievement Award, The George Washington University School of Medicine; John K. Lattimer Award, American Urological Association; Josef Steiner Cancer Research Award, Switzerland; Collège de France Lecture, France. The Medical Foundation Award for Distinguished Contribution to Health Research, Boston. 1995: Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Cancer Research; Naomi Kanof Clinical Investigator Award, Society for Investigative Dermatology; Ladd Medal, the American Academy of Pediatrics; Jakob Markowitz Award, the Academy of Surgical Research; Herbert J. Block Award, The Ohio State University. 1996: 4th Claude Jacquillat Award for Achievements in Clinical Oncology, France; the Shacknai Memorial Prize, Israel; Karnovsky Award, American Society of Clinical Oncology; Honorary Doctor of Science Degree, The Mount Sinai School of Medicine; 1996 Surgical Forum Dedication, American College of Surgeons; Ernst Schering Prize, Germany. 1997: Harvey Lecture, Rockefeller University; Medallion for Scientific Achievement, American Surgical Association; Ernst Jung Preis für Medizin, Germany; Charles S. Mott Prize, General Motors Cancer Research Foundation; Jill Rose Prize, The Breast Cancer Research Foundation, New York; Massry Prize, The Meira and Shaul G. Massry Foundation, University of Southern California; Distinguished Lecturer in Physiology Award, American College of Chest Physicians, New Orleans; Bertner Award, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. 1998: Flance/Karl Award, American Surgical Association; New York Academy of Medicine Medal; Honorary Doctor of Medicine, Uppsala University, Sweden; Honorary Doctor of Medicine Northwestern University, Chicago; Columbus Jewish Foundation Award, Ohio; Seventeenth Annual Jeannette Piperno Memorial Award, Temple University, Pennsylvania; Stevens Honor Award, Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey; Charles A. Dana Award, Charles A. Dana Foundation, New York; Guest Lectureship Award on Basic Cell Research in Cytology, American Society of Cytopathology, Tennessee; Steven C. Beering Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievements, Indiana University School of Medicine; John Scott Award, Board of Directors of City Trusts, Pennsylvania; Swedish Society of Medicine Medal, Gothenburg, Sweden; Keio Medical Science Prize, Keio University Medical Science Fund, Tokyo, Japan. 1999: Honorary Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland; Elected, American Philosophical Society; Honorary Member, American Association for Thoracic Surgery; Brown Hazen Award, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York; Chiron Award, Accademia Nazionale di Medicina, Rome, Italy; Honorary Doctor of Science Degree, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania; Honorary Degree Doctor of Human Letters, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Massachusetts; Golden Plate Award, Academy of Achievement, Washington, D.C.; City of Medicine Award, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; American College of Clinical Pharmacy Therapeutic Frontiers Lecture Award, Kansas City, Missouri; J. Allyn Taylor International Prize in Medicine, The John P. Robarts Research Institute, Ontario, Canada; Career Achievement Award, Italian Association for Cancer Research, Milan, Italy; A4M Infinity Award, American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine, Las Vegas, Nevada. 2000: Special Achievement Award, The Miami Nature Biotechnology Winter Symposia, Miami, Florida; Samuel B. Gross Prize, Philadelphia Academy of Surgery, Pennsylvania; Cartwright Prize, College of Plhsicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York; Dale Medal, Society for Endocrinology, United Kingdom; Walker Prize , Museum of Science, Boston, Massachusetts; Carl W. Gottschalk Lecture Award, University of North Carolina, Walter B. Cannon Award from the American Physiological Society; Earl P. Benditt Research Award, North American Vascular Biology Organization, Denver, Colorado; Rehfuss Medal, Thomas Jefferson University, Pennsylvania, and Insignia of Doctor Honoris Causa in Medicine, Goteborg University, Sweden. 2001: (April) Hoeck Distinguished Award of Academic Excellence, Children's Research Institute, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, D.C., (April) Benjamin Franklin Award in Life Science, The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, (July) the University College of London Prize in Clinical Science, United Kingdom, and (Sept) Distinguished Biomedical Research Award, Oakland University, Center for Biomedical Research, Rochester, Michigan.
Memberships:
Chairman Pathology A Study Section, NIH 1992-1994.
Member, Board of Scientific Counselors, National Cancer Institute 1996-1999.
Member, Medical Advisory Board of the Gairdner Foundation 1995-2000.
Associate Editor, Cancer Research 1990--.
Associate Editor, Molecular Medicine, 1994--. Fellow, American Association of Physicians; American Surgical Association and others.
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