Background
Langer, Salomon Z. was born on October 14, 1936 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Langer, Salomon Z. was born on October 14, 1936 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Doctor of Medicine summa cum laude, University Buenos Aires, 1960. Doctor of Medicine, University Buenos Aires, 1962.
Rotating intern for medical training department pharmacology Hospital de Clinicas, 1960—1961. Assistant professor department pharmacology University Buenos Aires School Medicine, 1961—1962, teaching assistant department pharmacology, 1958—1959, instructor department pharmacology, 1959—1961. Fellow department physiology University Buenos Aires School Medicine, National Research Council, 1961—1962.
Rockefeller Foundation fellow department biochemistry Tulane University, New Orleans, 1962—1963. Rockefeller Foundation fellow and research fellow department pharmacology Harvard Medical School, Boston, 1963—1965, research fellow pharmacology, 1963—1965. Instructor department pharmacology Harvard University Medical School, 1963—1966.
Research fellow pharmacology Harvard Medical School, 1965, instructor pharmacology, 1965—1966. Senior research fellow pharmacology unit Wellcome Trust Foundation, Institute Animal Physiology, Cambridge, England, 1967—1968. Assistant professor department pharmacology Colorado University Medical Center, Denver, 1968.
Director Institute Pharmacol. Investigations, Buenos Aires, 1969—1976. Professor pharmacology University Buenos Aires School Medicine, 1971—1976, University Sao Paulo School Medicine, Brazil, 1975—1976.
Head department pharmacology Wellcome Research Laboratories, Kent, England, 1976—1977. Director biology Synthelabo Research, Paris, 1977—1993, vice president, director department biology, 1992—1993, executive vice president, 1993—1994, research director, vice president, 1994—1999, president, 1996—1999. Senior vice president drug discovery Compugen, Tel-Aviv, Israel, since 1999.
Science advisor Clal Biotechnology, since 2001. Visiting scientist University Ghent, Heymans Institute, Belgium, 1966—1967. Visiting professor department pharmacology University Colorado Medical Center, Denver, 1971, Denver, 72, Denver, 73, University Sao Paulo School Medicine, Ribeiro Preto, 1974.
Visiting professor Ava Koushy School Medicine, Haifa, Israel, 1974, Ghent University, J.F. and C. Heymans Institute Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 1974. Visiting professor department pharmacology University Colorado Medical Center, Denver, 1979, Denver, 83. Visiting professor Free University Brussels, Hopital Erasme, Laboratory Psychiatric Research, Brussels, 1992—1993.
Member expert advisory panel on drug evaluation World Health Organization, 1975—1980. Chairman Satellite International Union of Pharmacology Symposium on Presynaptic Receptors, 1978. Chairman fellowship and awards committee Collegium International, 1987—1994.
Jury member World Psychiatric Association, 1989, Prix Francqui, 1990. Member science council International Academy for biomedical and Drug Research, since 1990. Consultant neuroscience research program European Community, since 1991.
Member international science board World Health Organization, International Center for Mental Health Policy, 1999.
Fellow: Academia Medicinae Psychiatriae, American Heart Association (member high blood pressure research council 1977, George E. Brown Memorial lecturer 1980, Ciba award in hypertension 1991). Member: Polish Academy of Sciences and Letters. (foreign), Academia Europaea, American College Neuropsychopharmacology (foreign correspondent) (1st Usdin lecturer 1985), European Sleep Research Society, New York Academy of Sciences, European College Neuropsychopharmacology (executive committee 1987-1989, president 1989-1992, Past President award 1995), European Society for Neuroscis., Society for Neuroscis., American Society Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (award for experimental therapeutics 2000), French Association Biological Psychiatry, French Association Pharmacologists (executive committee 1986-1991), International Society Neurochemistry, International Society Hypertension (Plenary lecturer 1976), International Union Pharmacology (member nominating committee 1975-1978, Plenary lecturer 1987), International Brain Research Organization, Argentine Society Bio-chemical Research, Deutsche Pharmakologische Gesellschaft, Peruvian Society Pharmacology (honorary), Argentine Society Pharmacology (honorary), Argentine Society Clinical Research, Brazilian Society Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Latin American Society Pharmacology (vice president, president-elect 1972-1974, president 1974-1976), National Research Council Argentina (member science research center 1969-1976), Argentine Society Experimental Pharmacology, Physiological Society, British Pharmacol.
Society (6th Gaddum Memorial lecturer 1977), Argentine Society Biology, Argentine Society Pharmacology and Therapeutics (president 1975-1977).