Background
EISEN, Herman Nathaniel was born on October 15, 1918 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Son of Joseph M. Eisen and Lena M. (Karush) Eisen.
Immunology researcher medical educator
EISEN, Herman Nathaniel was born on October 15, 1918 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Son of Joseph M. Eisen and Lena M. (Karush) Eisen.
AB, New York University, 1939. Doctor of Medicine, New York University, 1943. Doctor of Science (honorary), Washington University, St. Louis, 2003.
Assistant in pathology College Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York City, 1944—1946. National Institutes of Health fellow College Medicine, New York University, 1947—1948, fellow in chemistry, 1948—1949, assistant professor industrial medicine, 1949—1953, associate professor, 1953—1955. Professor medicine School Medicine, Washington University, St. Louis, 1955—1961.
Dermatologist-in-chief Barnes Hospital, 1955—1961. Professor microbiology, head department School Medicine Washington University, 1961—1973. Professor Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1973—1982, Whitehead Institute professor immunology, 1982—1989.
Professor emeritus, since 1989. Member advisory board Massachusetts Gen Hospital, Yale Medical School, Harvard School Public Health, Children's Hospital, Boston, Merck, Sharpe, Dohme Research Laboratories, Roche Institute for Molecular Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Chairman National Institute Health Study, 1962—1966.
Board of science counselors National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Disease, 1971—1975. Chairman World Health Organization Science Group on Regulation of Immune Responses, 1969. Lecturer Harvey Society, New York City, 1964.
Phillips lecturer Haverford College, 1971. Burroughs & Wellcome visiting lecturer Medical College Southern Carolina, 1979. Culpepper Foundation lecturer State University of New York, Stonybrook, 1981.
Lowry lecturer Washington University, St. Louis, 1989.
Board Scientific Advisors Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston since 1977, Boston Children’s Hospital since 1976, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Miami since 1978, Merck, Sharp & Dohme Research Laboratories, Rahway since 1976. Editorial boards of Journal of Immunology, Bacteriological Reviews, Physiological Reviews, Proceedings of the National Academy, of Sciences of United States of America. Board of Scientific Advisors, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
Board, Merck, Sharpe and Dohme, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. American Society for Clinical Investigation.
Married Natalie Aronson, 1948. 5 children.