Background
Edelman, Isidore Samuel was born on July 24, 1920 in Brooklyn.
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Isidore Samuel Edelman
Edit ProfileBiochemist and medical educator
Isidore Samuel Edelman, American Biochemist and medical educator. Established investigator American Heart Association, 1952-1957.
M C. Recipient Homer W. Smith award New York Heart Association, 1980, Mayo H. Soley medal We. Society Clinical Research, 1980, Distinguished Svc. award Columbia University, 1993; California Institute Technology senior research fellow, 1958-1959.
Education
Student, Brooklyn College, 1939. Bachelor, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1941. Doctor of Medicine, Indiana University, Indianapolis, 1944.
Doctor of Science (honoris causa), Columbia University, 2001.
Career
Resident, Montefiore Hospital, Bronx, New York, 1947-1948; Atomic Energy Commission postdoctoral fellow, Harvard Medical School, 1948-1949; research fellow, American Heart Association Brigham Hospital, Boston, 1950-1952; assistant professor medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 1952-1954; associate professor medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 1954-1960; professor medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 1960-1978; associate director cardiovascular research institute, University of California, San Francisco, 1960-1969; professor biophysics, Samuel Neider research professor medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 1967-1978; chief medical service, San Francisco General Hospital, 1956-1958; department chairman biochemistry and molecular biophysics, Columbia University, New York City, 1978-1988; Robert Wood Johnson Junior professor biochemistry, Columbia University, New York City, 1978-1990; professor emeritus, Columbia University, New York City, since 1991. Director Columbia Genome Center, since 1995.
Achievements
Membership
Served to captain Medical corpus, United States army, 1945-1947. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member National Academy of Sciences, Institute Medicine, American Academy Arts and Sciences, Association American Physicians, Biophysics Society, Endocrine Society (Eli Lilly Lectureship award 1969, Robert H. Williams Distinguished Leadership award 1996), Harvey Society (president 1989-1990), American Society Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
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Nationality
American
Education
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1939
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1941
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1944
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2001
Career
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1947 - 1948
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1948 - 1949
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1950 - 1952
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1952 - 1954
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1956 - 1958
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1978 - 1988
Awards
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Recipient Homer W. Smith award New York Heart Association, 1980, Mayo H. Soley medal We. Society Clinical Research, 1980, Distinguished Service award Columbia University, 1993, Anugrah Narayan Richards Distinguished Research award International Society Nephrology, 1999. California Institute of Technology senior research fellow, 1958-1959.Recipient Homer W. Smith award New York Heart Association, 1980, Mayo H. Soley medal We. Society Clinical Research, 1980, Distinguished Service award Columbia University, 1993, Anugrah Narayan Richards Distinguished Research award International Society Nephrology, 1999. California Institute of Technology senior research fellow, 1958-1959.