John Leopold Neumeyer

Background

Neumeyer, John Leopold was born on July 19, 1930 in Munich, Germany. Came to the United States, 1945, naturalized, 1950. Son of Albert and Martha (Stern) Neumeyer.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Columbia University, 1952. Doctor of Philosophy, University Wisconsin, 1961.

Career

Research chemist Ethicon Incorporated, New York Brunswick, New Jersey, 1952-1957, Federal Maritime Commission Corporation, Princeton, 1961-1963. Senior staff chemist Arthur D. Little, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1963-1969. Professor medicinal chemistry, chemistry Northeastern University, Boston, 1969-1991, director graduate school, 1978-1985, university distinguished professor, 1982—1992, university distinguished professor emeritus, since 1992.

Chairman board, chief science officer, co-founder Research Bio-chemical International, Natick, 1981-1997. President, co-founder Brain Research Laboratories, Inc., 1999—2002. Member committee of revision United States Pharmacopeia, 1970-1985.

Lecturer in psychiatry department psychiatry Harvard Medical School, since 1996. Boudewijn Tieboel visiting professor, Groningen-Utrecht Institute for Drug Exploration, Holland, 1997, director medicinal chemistry program Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Center McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, since 1996. Visiting professor chemistry University Konstanz, Germany, 1975-1977cons. in field.

Achievements

• John Leopold Neumeyer has been listed as a noteworthy company administrator, chemistry educator, research by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Board Health, Wayland, Massachusetts, 1968-1975, Pesticide Board, Massachusetts, 1972-1975. Member panel to secretary Department of Health Commission on Pesticides and their Relationship to Environmental Health, 1969. Member Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, 1996-2002.

Served to corporal United States Army, 1953-1955. Fellow: American Association for the Advancement of Science (member at large 1983-1987, chairman pharmaceutical science secretary 1992-1993), American Association Pharmaceutical Sciences (Research Achievement award in medicinal chemistry 1982). Member: American Chemical Society (board editors Journal Medicinal Chemistry 1974-1988, chairman division medical chemical 1982, councilor since 1985, trustee 1989-1993, Northeast section chairman-elect 2002, chairman 2003, named to Division Medicinal Chemistry Hall of Fame 2008), American Society Experimental Pharmaceutical and Experimental Therapeutics, American Society Neurosci., Academy Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Connections

Married Evelyn Friedman, June 24, 1956. Children: Ann Martha, David Alexander, Elizabeth Jean.

Father:

Albert Neumeyer

Mother:

Martha (Stern) Neumeyer

Spouse:

Evelyn Friedman

child:

David Alexander Neumeyer

child:

Ann Martha Neumeyer

child:

Elizabeth Jean Neumeyer