Gerald N. Wogan

Gerald N. Wogan (* 1930 ) is an American toxicologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

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Wogan earned a bachelor's degree in biology from Juniata College in 1951 and a master's degree in physiology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1953 . His Ph.D. Wogan did a degree in physiology there in 1957. In the same year he received a first professorship (assistant professor) for physiology at Rutgers University , before moving to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1961 .

At MIT, Wogan was a research associate before becoming an assistant professor of food toxicology in 1961 . In 1965 he became an associate professor and in 1969 he was given a full professorship. From 1978 to 1986 he was director of the local institute for environmental health . Wogan held an additional professorship for applied biosciences from 1979 to 1988, an additional professorship for chemistry from 1988, and for toxicology from 1996. Since 2001 he has been professor emeritus for toxicology.

Wogan is mainly for his work on the importance of aflatoxins as a carcinogen of the liver known - especially in the case of joint damage of the liver by hepatitis - virus . His group isolated the aflatoxins B1, B2 and G and determined the relationship between their structure and their toxicity . Current work deals with the role of chronic inflammation and nitrogen oxides in carcinogenesis .

Awards (selection)

• 1977 member of the National Academy of Sciences
• 1994 member of the Institute of Medicine
• 2005 Charles S. Mott Prize

Web links

• Laboratory of Gerald N. Wogan and Gerald N. Wogan at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit.edu)
• Gerald N. Wogan, PhD at be.mit.edu

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gerald Wogan. In: nasonline.org. Retrieved December 15, 2015 . 
2. ^ Elizabeth A. Thomson, News Office: Wogan wins $ 250,000 Mott Prize. In: news.mit.edu. June 8, 2005, accessed December 15, 2015 .