Background
Busch, Harris was born on May 23, 1923 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Maurice Ralph and Rose Lillian (Feigenholtz) Busch.
Busch, Harris was born on May 23, 1923 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Maurice Ralph and Rose Lillian (Feigenholtz) Busch.
Bachelor of Science, University of Illinois, 1944; Doctor of Medicine with honors, University of Illinois, 1946; Master of Science, University of Wisconsin, 1950; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, 1952.
Intern, Cook County Hospital, Chicago, 1946-1947;
assistant surgeon, senior assistant surgeon, United States Public Health Service, 1947-1949;
postdoctoral fellow, National Cancer Institute, 1950-1952;
assistant professor biochemistry, internal medicine, Yale University, 1952-1955;
associate professor, professor pharmacology, University of Illinois, 1955-1960;
professor biochemistry, department chairman, Baylor University College Medicine, 1960-1962;
professor pharmacology, department chairman, Baylor University College Medicine, since 1960;
distinguished service professor, Baylor University College Medicine, since 1978;
Michael E. DeBakey professor and chairman, since 1995;
chairman student promotions committee, Baylor University College Medicine, 1969-1972;
member president's county, Baylor University College Medicine, 1972-1993;
director Cancer Research Center, Baylor University College Medicine. Visiting professor University of Chicago, 1968, 71, Northwestern University, 1968, Georgia Medical College,1971, Washington University, St. Louis, 1972, U. Alabama, Birmingham, 1972, Indiana U., Indianapolis, 1972, U. Nevada, Reno, 1978, U. Colorado, Denver, 1980. Consultant lecturer U. Tennessee, University Texas, San Antonio, 1971.
Distinguished lecturer State University of New York, Buffalo, 1977. Centennial lecturer University of Illinois College Medicine, 1981. Distinguished lecturer Tohoku Medical School, Japan, 1990, Japan Chemotherapy Society, 1990, Taiwan, 1992.
Invited lecturer Vienna, Austria, 1992, George Washington University, 1992, Naples, Italy, 1994, Wilhelm Bernard Workshop, Spa (Liege), Belgium, 1995. Member of advisory committee cell and development biology American Cancer Society, 1978-1982. Cancer chemotherapy study section United States Public Health Service.
Member National Cancer Planning Committee, 1971. Member board science counselors to division cancer treatment National Cancer Institute, 1975.
Member American Society Biological Chemists and Molecular Biologists, American Association Cancer Research (president elect 1988-1989, president 1989-1990, board directors, science and public affairs committee 1987), American Chemical Society, Society Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Society Experimental Biology and Medicine, International Academy of Tumor Marker Oncology, Sigma Xi, Alpha Omega Alpha.
Married Rose Klora, June 16, 1945. Children: Daniel Avery, Laura Anne Busch Smolkin, Gerald Irwin, Fredric Neal.