Samuel Charles Silverstein

Background

Silverstein, Samuel Charles was born on February 11, 1937 in New York City. Son of Paul Robert and Jeanette (Kamen) Silverstein.

Education

AB, Dartmouth College, 1958. Doctor of Medicine, Albert Einstein College Medicine, 1963.

Career

Intern in medicine, U. Colorado Medical Center, 1963-1964; postdoctoral fellow department cell biology, Rockefeller U., 1964-1967; assistant professor cellular physiology and immunology, Rockefeller U., 1968-1971; associate professor, physician, Rockefeller U., since 1972; John Dalton professor physiology, professor medicine, Columbia University College Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, since 1983; department chairman, Columbia University College Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, since 1983. Assistant resident in medicine Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1967-1968. Established investigator American Heart Association, 1972-1977.

Member science advising committee Cancer Research Fund of Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Foundation, 1975-1979, board directors, since 1990. Member science advising committee New York Blood Center. Consultant National Institute Gen.Med.

Sciences, 1985-1989, American Heart Association, 1986-1989. Member county American Society Cell Biology, 1988-1992. Chairman Gordon Conference Lysosomes, 1982.

Founder, director Columbia University Summer Research Program for Science Teachers. Board directors Research American. Consultant National Institute Allergy and Infectious Diseases, 1977-1978, member of advisory county, director, since 1995.

Member science advising committee Keystone Symposia, since 1993, management committee, since 1996.

Achievements

• Samuel Charles Silverstein has been listed as a noteworthy researcher, professor by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• book

  • Transport of Macromolecules in Cellular Systems.

Membership

Board directors Arnold P. Gold Foundation, since 1998, Cancer Research Fund, Damon Runyon Foundation, since 1990. Board directors Research American, 1993-2005, member executive committee, 1996-2006. Fellow: American Association for the Advancement of Science (chair section medicine 1998), New York Academy of Sciences (education committee), American Society Microbiology.

Member: American Academy Arts and Sciences, Institute Medicine National Academy of Sciences, Federation American Societies for Experimental Biology (board directors 1991-1996, vice president 1993-1994, president 1994-1995, chairman public affairs advisory committee 1995-1996), Practitioners Society New York, Association American Physicians, American Physiological Society, American Society Biological Chemists, Infectious Diseases Society of America, American Association Immunologists, American Society Clinical Investigation, American Society Cell Biology (Bruce Alberts award for Excellence in Science Education 2005), Century Association, Explorers Club, American Alpine Club (director 1963-1964, 1969-1974), Dartmouth College Chapter Phi Beta Kappa (elected 2008).

Connections

Married Jo Ann Kleinman, April 2, 1967. Children: David Paul, Jennifer Kate.

Father:

Paul Robert Silverstein

Mother:

Jeanette (Kamen) Silverstein

Spouse:

Jo Ann Kleinman

child:

David Paul Silverstein

child:

Jennifer Kate Silverstein