Ernest Bueding
Ernest Bueding (born August 19, 1910 in Ohio , † April 18, 1986 in Baltimore ) was an American parasitologist, pharmacologist, biochemist and cancer researcher.
From 1954 he was head of pharmacology at the Medical School of Louisiana State University in New Orleans and from 1960 professor at Johns Hopkins University .
Bueding developed drugs for tropical worm diseases such as hookworms and schistosomiasis (schistosomiasis). He also investigated the use of one of these schistosomiasis drugs (oltipraz) as a preventative against cancer.
In 1979 he was accepted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1985 he received the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize .
He was an amateur musician who played violin and viola in chamber music and organized chamber music concerts at the Johns Hopkins. He had been friends with and corresponded with Albert Schweitzer since meeting him at the Pasteur Institute in Paris in the 1930s (he bequeathed his collection of Albert Schweitzer documents to the library of the Johns Hopkins University).
literature
- HJ Saz, Obituary in Zeitschrift für Parasitenkunde, Volume 72, 1986, pp. 697-699
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Oltipraz website
- ↑ Milton S. Eisenhower Library, Ernest Bueding collection of Albert Schweitzer Letters ( Memento of the original from June 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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| SURNAME | Bueding, Ernest |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American parasitologist, biochemist, and pharmacologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 19, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ohio |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 18, 1986 |
| Place of death | Baltimore |