Background
Clark, Leland Charles was born on December 4, 1918 in Rochester, New York, United States.
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Leland Charles Clark
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Leland Charles Clark, American Biochemist, medical products executive. Achievements include research in vitamin, steroid and oxygen metabolism; polarography; cardiovascular disease; hydrogen and oxygen electrodes in diagnosis; ion exchange resins in biology; glucose electrodes. Recipient Distinguished Lecturer award American College chest Physicians, 1975, Research Career award National Institutes of Health, 1962-1968.
Education
Bachelor of Science, Antioch College, 1941; Doctor of Philosophy in Biochemistry, U. Rochester, 1944.
Career
Chairman biochemistry department, Fels Research Institute, 1944-1958;
assistant professor biochemistry, Antioch college, 1944-1956;
professor, Antioch college, 1956-1958;
from associate professor to professor surgical Medical Center, University Alabama, 1958-1968;
professor research pediatrics Children's Hospital Research Foundation, Medical College, U. Cincinnati, since 1968. Senior research associate surgical and pediatrics U. Cincinnati, 1955-1958. Consultant Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, 1956-1958, National Institutes of Health, since 1961.
Visiting professor Cardiovasc. Research Institute, San Francisco, 1967.
Achievements
Membership
Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Heart Association (fellow county cerebrovasc. disease since 1967), Artificial Organs Society, New York Academy Science, Sigma Xi.
Connections
Married, 1939; 4 children.
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Nationality
American