Background
FREDRICKSON, Donald was born on August 8, 1924 in Canon City, Colorado, United States. Son of Charles Arthur Fredrickson and Blanche (Sharp) Fredrickson.
FREDRICKSON, Donald was born on August 8, 1924 in Canon City, Colorado, United States. Son of Charles Arthur Fredrickson and Blanche (Sharp) Fredrickson.
Student, University Colorado, 1942—1943. Bachelor of Science, University Michigan, 1946. Doctor of Medicine, University Michigan, 1949.
Doctor of Medicine (honorary), Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, 1977. Doctor of Science (honorary), University Michigan, 1977. Doctor of Science (honorary), Mount Sinai School Medicine, 1978.
Doctor of Science (honorary), University North Carolina, 1979. Doctor of Science (honorary), Georgetown University, 1981. Doctor of Science (honorary), Yeshiva University, 1981.
Doctor of Science (honorary), New Jersey University Medicine and Dentistry, 1982. Doctor of Science (honorary), Medical University South Carolina, 1985. Doctor of Science (honorary), George Washington University, 1985.
Doctor of Science (honorary), University Rochester, 1986.
Intern Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, 1949—1950. House staff member, fellow Peter Bent Brigham and Massachusetts General hospitals, 1950—1953. Member senior research staff laboratory cellular physiology and metabolism National Heart and Lung Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, 1953—1961, clinical director institute, 1961—1966, director institute, 1966—1968, chief molecular disease branch division intramural research, 1966, director division intramural research, 1968—1974.
President Institute Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, 1974—1975. Director National Institutes of Health, 1975—1981. Scholar-in-residence National Academy of Sciences, 1981—1983.
Vice president Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Bethesda, 1983, president, chief executive officer, trustee, 1984—1987. Scholar The National Library Medicine, from 1987. Professorial lecturer medicine George Washington University School Medicine, 1958—1964.
Lecturer preventive medicine Georgetown University School Medicine, 1963—1984. President Doctor of Science Fredrickson Associates, from 1987. Researcher National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, 1987—1990.
Board directors Surmodics, Inc. With United States Army, 1943-1945.
(Book by Donald S. Fredrickson)
Editor (with others): The Metabolic Basis of Inherited Disease, 1st-6th edit, 1989. Author: The Recombinant DNA Controversy: Memoir, 2001. Contributor articles to professional journals.Editor (with others): The Metabolic Basis of Inherited Disease, 1st-6th editions, 1989. Contributor articles to professional journals.
Senior Resident Staff, Laboratory of Cellular Physiology' and Metabolism 1955-1961, Clinical. Advisory Board Health Affairs. White House Science Council 1982-1989.
American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Academy, of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society. American Heart Association, American Society for Clinical Investigation, American Society of Human Genetics, Association of American Physicians, Institute Society of Cardiology', N.A.S. and many other. British Cardiac Society, Deutsche Gesellsehaft fur Inntere Medizine.
Medical Society of Sweden.
Married Henrietta Priscilla Dorothea Eekhof, September 5, 1950. Children: Eric Henderikus, Rurik Charles.