Background
Homburger, Freddy was born on February 8, 1916 in St. Gall, Switzerland. Son of Ludwig and Cécile (Gaille) Homburger. came to the United States, 1941, naturalized, 1952.
Homburger, Freddy was born on February 8, 1916 in St. Gall, Switzerland. Son of Ludwig and Cécile (Gaille) Homburger. came to the United States, 1941, naturalized, 1952.
Student, University Vienna, Austria, 1937. Doctor of Medicine, University Geneva, Switzerland, 1941.
Research fellow, intern pathology, Yale Medical school and New Haven Hospitals, 1941-1943;
intern, research fellow in medicine, Harvard Medical School, Thorndike Memorial Laboratory, Boston City Hospital, 1943-1945;
fellow in medicine, Memorial Hospital, New York City, 1946-1948;
chief clinical investigation, Sloan-Kettering Institute Cancer Research, New York City, 1945-1948;
instructor medicine, Cornell Univercity Medical College, 1946-1948;
research professor medicine, Cornell Univercity Medical College
director cancer research and control unit, Tufts U. School Medicine, Boston, 1948-1957;
member courtesy staff, Mount Desert Island Hospital, Bar Harbor, Maine., 1955-1973;
member courtesy staff, Eastern Memorial Hospital, Ellsworth, Maine., 1957-1960;
science associate, Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, 1951-1960;
research professor oncology, division basic science, School Graduate Dentistry, Boston University, since 1973;
research professor pathology, School Medicine, since 1974;
member science staff, Mallory Institute Pathology, Boston City Hospital, since 1979;
member Graduate School Faculty, Boston University, since 1981. Member corporation Gesell Institute Child Development, 1960-1978. Chairman advising committee American Students U. Geneva.
President, director Bio-Research Institute, Inc., 1957-1990, Bio-Research Cons., Inc., 1957-1995. President Trenton Experimental Laboratory Animal Company, Bar Harbor, 1969-1981. Treasurer, director Cambridge Coordinating Committee Drugs,1972-1974.
Honorary consul of Switzerland in Boston, 1964-1986. Neutral mem.mixed medical commission War Department, 1944-1946.
Overseers committee to visit Harvard University, 1965-1971, 76-82. Board directors Cambridge Society Early Music, since 1970. Trustee Opera Company, Boston, 1967-1984.
Chairman Friends Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1974-1985. Visitor paintings Boston Museum Fine Arts, 1974-1991. Member advisory board Lachaise Foundation.
Board overseers Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, 1985-1988, trustee 1988-1998. Board directors Copley Society Boston, 1986-1991, Longy School Music, Cambridge, 1984-1993, Council for the Arts at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991-1994. Executive secretary Friends of Switzerland, Boston, since 1986.
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, New York Academy of Sciences (educational advisory committee 1967), Academy Toxicol. Sciences; member National Hypertension Association (national advisory council since 1978), American Medical Association, Endocrine Society, American Association Cancer Research, American Federation Clinical Research, New York Academy Medicine, Society Experimental Biology and Medicine, American Association Pathologists, Society Toxicology, American Society Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Royal Society Health, British Society Toxicology, Society Pharmacol. and Environmental Pathologists, Endocrine Society, New England Society Pathologists, Cambridge Chamber of Commerce (director 1969-1973), Harvard Club (Boston), Cosmos Club (Washington), Sigma Xi. Clubs: Harvard (Boston).
Cosmos (Washington).
Married Regina Thûrlimann, November 8, 1939.