Rachmiel Levine

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Rachmiel Levine (born August 26, 1910 in Zaleszczyki , Poland , today Salishchyky, Ukraine , † February 22, 1998 in Boston , Massachusetts ) was an American physician . He is considered one of the co-founders of modern diabetes research .

Life

Levine was born in the east of what was then Poland (today the area belongs to Ukraine ). When he was six years old, his mother died. Ten years later, his father was killed in an anti-Jewish pogrom . Levine initially tried to live with his grandparents in the United States at the age of 16 but could not get a visa. Eventually he emigrated to Canada , where he was adopted by a family friend, a doctor. He initially wanted to study mathematics, but then earned a bachelor's degree in 1932 from McGill University in Montreal and an MD with top marks ("with honors") from McGill Medical School in 1936 . From 1936 he worked at the Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago , where he also completed his specialist training ( internship ), research on diabetes mellitus , first as an assistant, then as vice director and finally (1942-1960) as director of the department for internal medicine and hormone research. In 1960 he moved to the New York Medical College as chief physician for internal medicine . In 1971 he became the executive medical director of the City of Hope National Medical Center . In 1984 he retired , but as an emeritus he took on the role of Vice Director for Research. In 1991 he finally retired.

Levine's wife Anne Gussak Levine died in 1997. The couple had two children.

Act

Levine was able to make numerous contributions to research into diabetes mellitus . In particular, he pioneered research into the effects of insulin . Together with Maurice Goldstein and Samuel Soskin , he discovered in 1949 that insulin ensures that glucose is absorbed from the blood into fat and muscle cells (Levine effect) . Levine was able to demonstrate that the insulin acts on the outside of the cells and does not have to be absorbed into the cells for its effect to develop (today the insulin receptor is known). He made the City of Hope National Medical Center a premier diabetes research institution. Under his aegis, in 1978, together with researchers from Genentech, the first successful production of recombinant insulin.

Awards (selection)

The American Diabetes Association awards the Rachmiel Levine Medal for Service . There is a Rachmiel Levine Diabetes Reading Room in the City of Hope National Medical Center's medical library .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Michael Reese Hospital - physicians at hectoen international (hekint.org); accessed on May 9, 2019.
  2. ↑ Rachmiel Levine BA, MD at the Gairdner Foundation (gairdner.org); Retrieved November 2, 2013.
  3. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter L. (PDF; 1.1 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved May 9, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Rachmiel Levine (1910 † 1998) ( Memento from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (easd.org)
  5. ^ Rachmiel Levine at the National Academy of Sciences (nasonline.org); Retrieved November 2, 2013.
  6. ↑ Recipients of National Service Achievement Awards (PDF; 45 kB) from the American Diabetes Association (diabetes.org); Retrieved November 2, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Levine, Rachmiel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American medical doctor and diabetes researcher
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Zaleszczyki , Poland
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1998
Place of death Boston , Massachusetts