Background
Jacobus, David Penman was born on February 26, 1927 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of David Dinkel and Margaret Elizabeth (Penman) Jacobus.
Jacobus, David Penman was born on February 26, 1927 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of David Dinkel and Margaret Elizabeth (Penman) Jacobus.
Bachelor, Harvard, 1949. Doctor of Medicine, University Pennsylvania, 1953.
Intern Hospital University Pa, 1953—1954. Resident, 1954—1957; assistant chief department nuclear medicine Walter Reed Army Institute Research, District of Columbia, 1957—1959, chief department radiology, 1959—1963, chief department medicinal chemistry, 1963—1965, director, 1965—1969. Vice president inflammation Arthritis Research Merck Sharp & Dohme Research Laboratories, Division Merck & Company, since 1969.
Owner Jacobus Pharmaceutical Company, New York. Past trustee Cold Spring Harbor Lab, New York. Captain United States Army, 1957-1959.
Fellow: Royal Society Medicine (London). Member: International Inflammation Research Society, New York Academy of Sciences, American Society Information Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Harvard (New York ).
Married Claire Robinson, October 16, 1956. Children: Marget H., Claire H., William P., Laura R., John L.