Background
Lorand, Laszlo was born on March 23, 1923 in Gyor, Hungary. Son of Hugo and Margaret (Klein) Lorand. came to the United States, 1952, naturalized, 1957.
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Laszlo Lorand
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Absolutorium, University Budapest Medical School, 1948. Doctor of Philosophy in Biomolecular Structure, University Leeds, England, 1951. Doctor of Science honorary, University Illinois, 1983.
Career
A professor emeritus in cell and molecular biology at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Lorand was a longtime professor in the departments of chemistry and molecular biosciences at Northwestern University before transferring to Northwestern"s medical school. He was a co-discoverer of the substance that later became known as factor XIII. In Hungary, he was mentored by biochemists Albert Szent-Györgyi and Kalman Laki. Owing to events related to the Cold War, Lorand left Budapest for England in December 1948, just after finishing his medical school coursework.
The biomolecular structure department at the University of Leeds was chaired by physicist and molecular biologist William Astbury.
He became interested in Lorand"s prior work on the viscosity of fibrin. Lorand earned a Doctor of Philosophy in biomolecular structure from Leeds in 1951.
Lorand was a professor at Wayne State University, then came to Northwestern and spent many years in the departments of chemistry and molecular biosciences. In 1993, he transferred to Northwestern"s Feinberg School of Medicine.
Lorand is associated with the Feinberg Cardiovascular Research Institute.
He was the co-editor of Proteolytic Enzymes, a volume of the scientific series Methods in Enzymology. He was a co-discoverer of factor XIII, which was formerly referred to as Laki-Lorand factor and fibrin stabilizing factor. In 1983, Lorand was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1987.
Lorand met Joyce Bruner, also a scientist, in 1953. They later married. Joyce died in 2010.
Achievements
Membership
Trustee marine biological laboratory Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 1983-1987, 87-91. Member National Academy of Sciences, American Society Bio-chemical Molecular Biologists, American Chemical Society, Bio-chemical Society (London), Physical Society, American Heart Association, Society Cell Biology, International Society Hematology, International Society Thrombosis and Hemostasis, American Physiological Society, Association Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (foreign).
Connections
Son of Hugo and Margaret (Klein) L. M. Joyce A. Bruner, November 28, 1953. 1 daughter, Michele Alexandra.
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Recipient United States Public Health Service Research Career award National Heart Institute 1962-1993, James F. Mitchell international award for heart and vascular research, 1973, Lalor Faculty award, 1957, Distinguished Career award for contributions to hemostasis, 1983, National Institutes of Health Merit award, 1989. Beit Memorial fellow, 1951, Lady Davis fellow Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1985, Japan Society for Promotion of Science fellow, 1989-1990.Recipient United States Public Health Service Research Career award National Heart Institute 1962-1993, James F. Mitchell international award for heart and vascular research, 1973, Lalor Faculty award, 1957, Distinguished Career award for contributions to hemostasis, 1983, National Institutes of Health Merit award, 1989. Beit Memorial fellow, 1951, Lady Davis fellow Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1985, Japan Society for Promotion of Science fellow, 1989-1990.