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Harvard Medical School. Yale University.
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Christian Raetz
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He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2006. His laboratory"s research focused on lipid biochemistry and has contributed significantly to the understanding of Lipid A biosynthesis. Raetz was born in 1946 in East Berlin.
In the early 1950s, the Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation recruited his father, and Raetz"s family moved to Columbus, Ohio.
Raetz earned his undergraduate degree from Yale University in 1967 and his Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Harvard University in 1973. Raetz died of anaplastic thyroid cancer on August 16, 2011.
After graduate and medical school, Raetz was a research associate at the National Institute of General Medical Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. In 1974 he secured a faculty position in the biochemistry department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
In 1987, Raetz joined the pharmaceutical company Merck, eventually becoming vice president for biochemistry and microbiology research.
In 1993, Raetz joined the biochemistry department at Duke. 2006 - Elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
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National Academy of Sciences.
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United States