Isaac Starr

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Isaac Starr (born March 6, 1895 in Philadelphia , † June 22, 1989 in Roxborough near Philadelphia) was an American physiologist and pharmacologist at the University of Pennsylvania .

Life

Starr earned a bachelor's degree from Princeton University in Princeton , New Jersey , in 1916 , and an MD from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , in 1920 , with a medical degree. After two years as an assistant doctor at Massachusetts General Hospital , Alfred Newton Richards brought him to the University of Pennsylvania as a lecturer in pharmacology, where Starr was a member of the faculty for 44 years. In 1933, Starr Hartzell became Professor of Research Therapeutics . From 1945 to 1948 he was dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine . In 1961 Starr retired , but was still scientifically active until 1986. Starr was married to Edith Nelson Page. The couple had four children.

Work and awards

Starr researched the physiology of the kidney , the pathophysiology of heart failure and the treatment of peripheral arterial disease . Starr developed 1939 Ballistocardiography of Yandell Henderson gain to the application stage, a non-invasive method to the body surface information about forces in the interior of the heart, and particularly the cardiac output. For this and for his other fundamental contributions to the understanding of the cardiovascular system , he was awarded the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1957. Other awards included the Kober Medal of the Association of American Physicians in 1967 , the Burger Medal of the Free University of Amsterdam in 1977 and an honorary doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in 1983 .

Starr was a founding member of the Cardiovascular Research Division of the National Institutes of Health (NHI), long-time member of the National Research Council's (NRC) Drug Addiction Committee , served as a member of the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) Revision Committee for 20 years, and 17 years as Member of the American Medical Association (AMA) drug council , including three years as chairman. He was one of the editors of scientific journals American Heart Journal and Circulation . Starr served on the board of the American Society for Clinical Investigation .

literature

  • Who's Who in America: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Men and Women. : Volume 28 (1954-1955), Marquis Who's Who, Chicago, Ill., 1955, p. 2541.
  • David Y. Cooper III, Marshall A. Ledger: Isaac Starr. In: Innovation and Traditional at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine: An Anecdotal Journey. Part 3 (PDF, 9.7 MB) at the University of Pennsylvania (upenn.edu), pp. 193–196
  • TG Schnabel: Memoir of Isaac Starr, 1895-1989. In: Transactions & studies of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Volume 12, Number 1, March 1990, pp. 114-118, ISSN  0010-1087 . PMID 2181739 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award 1957 Winners at the Lasker Foundation (laskerfoundation.org); Retrieved June 16, 2012
  2. ↑ J. Stokes: Presentation to Dr. Isaac Starr of the Kober Medal. In: Transactions of the Association of American Physicians. Volume 80, 1967, pp. 32-41, ISSN  0066-9458 . PMID 4866718 .
  3. ↑ Chronological Listing of Honorary Degrees ( Memento June 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) of the University of Pennsylvania (upenn.edu)
personal data
SURNAME Rigid, Isaac
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rigid, Jack
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physiologist and pharmacologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 1989
Place of death Roxborough near Philadelphia