Background
III, Emil Frei, was born in 1924 in St. Louis.
III, Emil Frei, was born in 1924 in St. Louis.
Doctor of Medicine, Yale University, 1948.
Intern St. Louis University Hospital, 1948—1949. Resident in pathology Barnes Hospital, St. Louis, 1952—1953. Resident in internal medicine St. Louis University, 1953—1954, Veterans Administration Hospital, St. Louis, 1954—1955.
Chief general medicine branch National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, 1955—1965. Head development therapeutics, associate director M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, Houston, 1965—1972. Director, physician-in-chief Children's Cancer Research Foundation (now Dana-Farber Cancer Institute), Boston, 1972—1991.
Physician-in-chief emeritus Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, since 1991. Professor medicine Medical School Harvard University, Boston, since 1972, Richard and Susan Smith professor medicine, 1985, Richard and Susan Smith distinguished professor medicine, since 1994. National consultant in internal medicine-oncology United States Air Force, 1968—1972.
Member Eleanor Roosevelt international cancer fellowships committee International Union Against Cancer, 1968—1972. Chairman anti-neoplastic disease drug panel, drug efficacy study National Academy of Sciences, 1968—1972. National consultant in internal medicine-oncology United States Air Force.
Member board science counselors National Cancer Institute, 1986—1990, member Presidential Commission for New Drugs for Cancer and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, 1988—1990. Chairman antitumor drug panel National Academy of Sciences, 1996. Lieutenant Medical Corps United States Naval Reserve, 1950-1952.
Fellow: American College of Physicians, American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member: American Medical Association, Icon of Oncology (member 2003), National Academy Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Association American Physicians, American Society Clinical Investigation, American Society Hematology, American Cancer Society (annual National award 1981), American Society Clinical Oncology (president 1968-1969, Distinguished Scientist award 1992), American Association for Cancer Research (past president, Lifetime Achievement in Cancer Research award 2004).
Married Elizabeth Smith (deceased April 1986). Children: Mary, Emil, Alice, Nancy, Judy. Married Adoria Smetana Brock, May 1987.
Stepchildren: Stephen, Francis, Peter, Vincent, John.