Samuel Strober Explained

Samuel Strober
Nationality:American
Education:Columbia College
Harvard Medical School
Occupation:Physician
Work Institutions:Stanford Medical School

Samuel Strober (8 May 1940-[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]

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

His first wife is feminist economist Myra Strober, who decided to keep the Strober last name after she remarried.[15] [16]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Samuel Strober, pioneering transplantation immunologist, dies at 81. Bruce. Goldman. Stanford Medicine News Center.
  2. Web site: In Memoriam: Sam Strober, MD. February 22, 2022. American Society of Transplantation. July 6, 2022. April 19, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220419161813/https://www.myast.org/memoriam-sam-strober-md. live.
  3. Web site: 2022-06-17 . Obituaries . 2022-06-23 . Columbia College Today . en . 2022-06-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220623110336/https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/issue/springsummer-2022/article/obituaries . live .
  4. hms.harvard.edu/
  5. Web site: Massachusetts General Hospital. Massachusetts General Hospital. 2022-02-12. 2022-02-09. https://web.archive.org/web/20220209180515/https://www.massgeneral.org/. live.
  6. Web site: Stanford Health Care (SHC) – (formerly Stanford Hospital & Clinics).
  7. Web site: Sir William Dunn School of Pathology |. www.path.ox.ac.uk. 2017-03-06. 2017-02-26. https://web.archive.org/web/20170226093104/http://www.path.ox.ac.uk/. live.
  8. Web site: Research - Immunology & Rheumatology - Stanford Medicine. 2016-06-22. 2016-04-21. https://web.archive.org/web/20160421085931/http://med.stanford.edu/immunology/research.html. live.
  9. Web site: Stanford Medicine professor James Fries, proponent of healthy aging, dies at 83. Bruce Goldman. Stanford Medicine News Center. 2022-07-06. 2021-12-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20211230203146/https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2021/12/james-fries-obituary.html. live.
  10. Web site: Clinical Immunology Society. 2016-06-22. 2016-06-29. https://web.archive.org/web/20160629164853/http://www.clinimmsoc.org/. live.
  11. Web site: LIAI Board of Directors Samuel Strober, MD Board - La Jolla Institute .... yumpu.com. 2022-02-12. 2022-02-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20220212165909/https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/27812173/liai-board-of-directors-samuel-strober-md-board-la-jolla-institute-. live.
  12. Web site: board of directors . 2007-12-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071229193033/http://livesite.liai.org/pages/board-of-directors . dead . La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology.
  13. Web site: Board of Directors. La Jolla Institute for Immunology. 2022-02-12. 2022-02-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20220212163331/https://www.lji.org/about-us/our-team/board-of-directors/. live.
  14. Web site: Scientific Founders . Medeor Therapeutics . 2022-07-06 . 2022-03-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220301033550/https://medeortx.com/about-us/scientific-founders.php . live .
  15. Book: Myra Strober. John Donahoe (forward). Sharing the Work: What My Family and Career Taught Me about Breaking Through (and Holding the Door Open for Others). MIT Press. 2016. 181–182. 9780262034388. 2022-02-12. 2022-02-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20220214234645/https://books.google.com/books?id=3OC2CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA181. live.
  16. Web site: Memoir covers trailblazing life of Stanford professor. Janet Silver. Ghent. May 27, 2016. February 12, 2022. February 12, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220212162758/https://www.jweekly.com/2016/05/27/memoir-covers-trailblazing-life-of-stanford-professor/. live.

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