Background
Najjar, Victor Assad was born on April 15, 1914 in Zalka, Lebanon. Son of Assad Maroun and Hala (Ashkar) Najjar.
Najjar, Victor Assad was born on April 15, 1914 in Zalka, Lebanon. Son of Assad Maroun and Hala (Ashkar) Najjar.
Student, American University, Beirut, 1928—1935. Doctor of Medicine, American University, Beirut, 1935.
Intern American University, Beirut, 1935—1936. Pediatrician Teachers College Hospital and Pediatrics Clinic, Baghdad, Iraq, 1936—1938. Resident Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, 1938—1944, assistant professor, director out-patient department, 1944—1944.
Fellow National Research Council, Washington University, St Louis, 1946—1948. Associate professor Johns Hopkins University School Medicine, Baltimore, 1949—1957. Fellow National Research Council, Cambridge, England, 1948—1949.
Professor, chairman microbiology Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 1957—1968. Chairman protein chemistry, professor molecular biology and pediatrics Tufts University School Medicine, Boston, from 1968. Editor Molecular Cell Biochemistry, 1972—1983.
Board governors St. Jude Hospital, Memphis, 1968—1984. Board directors ALSAC-St. Jude Children's Research Hospitals, 1968—1984. Executive committee board governors St. Jude Hospital, 1970—1984.
Member science group on bilharziasis World Health Organization, Geneva, from 1982.
Member of American Society Clinical Investigation, American Society Biological Chemists, Society Pediatric Research, American Pediatric Society, Alpha Omega Alpha.
Children: Jennifer, Julie, Victor M.