Background
Fried, Josef was born on July 21, 1914 in Przemysl, Poland. Son of Abraham and Frieda (Fried) Fried. came to the United States, 1938, naturalized, 1944.
Fried, Josef was born on July 21, 1914 in Przemysl, Poland. Son of Abraham and Frieda (Fried) Fried. came to the United States, 1938, naturalized, 1944.
Student, University Leipzig, 1934-1937; student, University Zurich, 1937-1938; Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1941.
He held 200 patents on chemical compounds, with 43 listing him as the sole holder. He was a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Chicago. Fried discovered fluorohydrocortisone, a chemical used to treat adrenal disorders.
He was also director of the organic chemistry at the Squibb Institute.
His discoveries were instrumental to the creation of medications to treat inflammatory disorders including as arthritis, psoriasis, and various skin allergies. National Academies Press called him "an outstanding organic chemist who made very special contributions to the field of medicine".
Professor Elias James Corey (Nobel laureate, 1990) had this to say of Fried: “He was an outstanding, highly creative scientist who straddled both the worlds of pharmaceutical research and academic science. He was one of my heroes, and I’ve always thought of him as a model scientist of great character and great human warmth." Josef Fried was born in the town of Przemyśl, Poland, on July 21, 1914.
Fried received his Doctor of Philosophy in organic chemistry from Columbia University in 1940.
Fried joined the Squibb Institute in 1944 as a head of its antibiotics and steroids department. He was later promoted to director of the organic chemistry section in 1959. In 1963 Fried was appointed professor at the Ben May Laboratory for Cancer Research at the University of Chicago.
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, New York Academy of Sciences. Member National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Sciences, American Chemical Society (award in medicinal chemistry 1974, Alfred Burger award in medicinal chemistry 1996), American Society Biological Chemists, Swiss Chemical Societies, British Chemical Societies, Sigma Xi.
Son of Abraham and Frieda (Fried) F. M. Erna Werner, September 18, 1939 (deceased November 1986). L daughter, Carol Frances.