Cyrus Robbins Creveling

Background

Creveling, Cyrus Robbins was born on May 30, 1930 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Cyrus Robbins and Edith Lois (Hill) Creveling.

Education

Bachelor of Science, George Washington University, 1954; Master of Science, George Washington University, 1955; Doctor of Philosophy, George Washington University, 1962.

Career

Chemist, Naval Ordinance Laboratory, Washington, 1953-1954; medical technical, Sibley Memorial Hospital, Washington, 1955-1957; chemist, National Heart Institute, Bethesda, Maryland., 1957-1962; research associate, Harvard University, Boston, 1963-1964; chemist, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, since 1964; professor of pharmacology, Howard U. School Medicine, Washington, 1967-1986; coordinator technology department, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, 1989-1995; director office technical development, National Institute Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, since 1995; professor pharmacology and toxicology, Medical College Virginia, Richmond, since 1985. Member division research grants National Institutes of Health, 1966-1970. Lecturer in field; member task force on environmental cancer and heart and lung diseases, Project Group on standardization, measurements and tests, Environmental Protection Agency, 1979-1982.

Project advisory board screening food additives, Food and Drug Administration, 1979-1983. Organizer 8th International Catecholamine Symposium, since 1995. President-elect Washington Academy Science, since 1997.

Achievements

• Cyrus Robbins Creveling has been listed as a notable Chemist, neuroscientist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Chairman advisory board Montgomery Library., Kensington, 1984-1986. Member Bethesda HELP, since 1987. Member BlackBerry Telecasts, Channel 7, Washington, 1982-1991.

Member American Federation Scientists, American Chemical Society, American Society Pharmacol. Exptl.Therapeutics, Society Experimental Biology and Medicine (president 1977-1978, councilor since 1975), Washington Academy Sciences (fellow, board of managers 1979-1980, Chairman.biol. science panel since 1980, vice president membership affairs 1991-1998), Foundation Advanced Education in Sciences (chair scholarship committee 1989-1998, president since 1998), Catecholamine Club (president 1980-1981), Society Neurosci., Gordon Conference on Cyclic Nucleotides, Chemical Society Washington, International Society Study Xenobiotics, International Union Physiological Sciences, International Union Pure and Applied Chemistry (affiliate), International Narcotics Research Conference since 1989, International Union Physiological Science, Association Federal Technology Transfer Executives, many others.

Connections

Married Cornelia Mills Rector, September 3, 1954. Children: Victoria Anne Mariano, Diana Rector Mears.

Father:

Cyrus Robbins Creveling

Mother:

Edith Lois (Hill) Creveling

Spouse:

Cornelia Mills Rector

child:

Diana Rector Mears Creveling

child:

Victoria Anne Mariano Creveling