Background
DeFeudis, Francis Vincent was born on February 27, 1938 in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Francis Peter and Josephine Mary (Piccirelli) De F.
biochemist consultant physiologist
DeFeudis, Francis Vincent was born on February 27, 1938 in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Francis Peter and Josephine Mary (Piccirelli) De F.
Bachelor of Science in Zoology, University Miami, 1961. Master of Arts in Biology, Clark University, 1964. Doctor of Philosophy in Biochemistry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1968.
National Science Foundation teaching fellow, Clark University, Worcester, 1962-1964; United States Public Health Service fellow in biological science, Yale University, New Haven, 1968-1969; Wellcome Trust fellow, Cambridge (England) University, 1969-1970; assistant professor neurochemistry and pharmacology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, 1970-1974; assistant professor neurochemistry and pharmacology, U. Indiana School Medicine, Indianapolis, 1971-1974; professor physiology, U. Autonoma Madrid Faculty Medicine, 1974-1978; professor biochemistry, U. Louis Pasteur Faculty Medicine, Strasbourg, France, 1978-1988; president, Institute for Bioscience, Westborough, Massachusetts, since 1986. Chief section neurochemistry Centro Ramon y Cajal, Madrid, 1974-1978. Organizer, co-organizer international meetings, since 1972.
Fellow American College Nutrition, International College Nutrition (president 1988). Member Society for Neurosci., International Brain Research Organization, British Pharmaceutical Society.
Married Patricia Ann Fessenden, May 6, 1964 (divorced 1983). 1 child, Francis R.