Education
At Harvard University, he was a student (earning both a chemistry Doctor of Philosophy in 1944 and Doctor of Medicine in 1948), professor, and doctor (Massachusetts General Hospital), and was involved with the campus for 70 years.
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Maurice Pechet
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Career
Pechet made substantial contributions to the field of internal medicine, in particular in the domain of developing new antirachitic sterols to treat metabolic bone disease. He resided in Cambridge, Massachusetts for most of his life. Served as President of the Research Institute for Medicine & Chemistry, Cambridge, Master of Arts.
Sat on Harvard Medical School"s Board of Fellows.
Sat on the Harvard University"s Board of Tutors in Biochemical Sciences.
Served as a Director Emeritus of Canadian Western Bank. Served as a Honorary Trustee of Immune Disease Institute, Incorporated.
She continues to reside in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Pechet donated to a wide range of philanthropic causes. In 1960, he established the Maurice Pechet Foundation.
The Maurice Pechet Foundation has given to scientific research, poverty alleviation, education, the arts, and environmental causes.
The Foundation has made donations and provided grants to such organizations as the Golden Foundation for the Arts, the Earthwatch Institute, The Cambridge Family & Children"s Service, The Young Audiences of Massachusetts, The New Sector Alliance, The Cambridge Center for Adult Education, The Breast Cancer Research Foundation, The Perkins School for the Blind, The Center for Blood Research (CBR), and the New England Conservatory. Pechet was a Director Emeritus of the Canadian Western Bank.
Membership
Sat as senior member of the Senior Common Room of Lowell House, at Harvard University.
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March 5, 2012 (aged 94)