Emil C. Gotschlich
Emil Claus Gotschlich (born January 17, 1935 in Bangkok ) is an American bacteriologist , immunologist and physician .
Gotschlich was born in Bangkok as the son of German emigrants and came to the USA in 1950, receiving his citizenship in 1955. He studied at New York University with a bachelor's degree (BA) in 1955 and medicine at the New York University School of Medicine with an MD in 1959. He completed his internship at Bellevue Hospital. From 1960 he was at Rockefeller University in the laboratory for bacteriology and immunology, then under Maclyn McCarty and Rebecca Lancefield . He stayed at Rockefeller University for the remainder of his career except 1966 to 1968 as Captain of the US Army Medical Corps in the bacteriology department of the Walter Reed Institute of Research in Washington DC, where he developed a vaccine against meningitis C. This infection was a major problem in US Army recruitment camps, but almost completely disappeared after the vaccine was developed. At Rockefeller University and its university hospital from 1978 he was professor of bacteriology and head of the laboratory for bacterial pathogenesis and immunology. From 1996 to 2005 he was Vice President for Medical Sciences at his university.
He is particularly concerned with bacteria of the genus Neisseria and especially with the causative agents of meningitis (meningitis) and gonorrhea . He worked a lot with Harry A. Feldman (1914–1985) in the 1970s . Gotschlich was involved in the development of a polysaccharide vaccine against meningitis. In addition to the mentioned vaccine against type C meningitis, he also developed one against type A, which has been successfully used in countries such as Egypt, Sudan and Finland. It also deals with strep infections. In 1984 he developed a protocol for a gonorrhea vaccine.
In 2001 he was appointed to the Anthrax Vaccine Committee by the US Center for Disease Control .
In 1978 he received the Lasker ~ DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award . He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine .
His father was a resident doctor in Bangkok. His grandfather was the well-known doctor, hygiene expert and epidemiologist Emil Gotschlich (specialized in cholera and tropical diseases) and his great-uncle was the biologist Felix Gotschlich , who also dealt with cholera.
He was married to the immunologist Kathleen Ann Haines for the second time. A son and a daughter are also doctors.
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| SURNAME | Gotschlich, Emil C. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gotschlich, Emil Claus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American bacteriologist and immunologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 17, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bangkok |