Background
Merk, Frederick Bannister was born on February 21, 1936 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Frederick and Lois Alberta (Bannister) Merk.
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Frederick Bannister Merk
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Frederick Bannister Merk, American Biomedical educator, medical researcher. Achievements include research on biology of cells in target organs responding to hormones with emphasis on benign prostatic hypertrophy (enlargement) and prostate cancer. Named Outstanding Teacher in Basic Sciences, Tufts U. School Medicine, 1989,91-93; National Institutes of Health grantee, 1994-1999.
Education
AB, Harvard College, 1958; Doctor of Philosophy, Boston University, 1971.
Career
Assistant professor pathology, Boston University School Medicine, 1972-1973; associate professor department pathology, Tufts U. School Medicine, Boston, since 1973; associate professor department anatomy, Tufts U. School Medicine, Boston, since 1973. Consultant electron microscopy Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1964-1985. Consultant toxicological testing Transgenic Sciences, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1988-1991, United States Army, since 1998.
Achievements
Membership
Trustee Broadway United Methodist Church, Lynn, Massachusetts, chairman since 1994. Member American Society Cell Biology, Federation American Society Experimental Biology, American Association Anatomists, Microscopy Society American, Boston Cancer Research Association, Sigma Xi.
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Married Linda Jean Poole, October 22, 1966 (deceased December 1994). Children: John F., R. Daniel. Married Laura Ann Bradford, July 11, 1998.
1 stepchild, Letty A. Bradford.
