Stanley J. Korsmeyer

Who is this?

Stanley Joel Korsmeyer (June 8, 1950 – March 31, 2005) was an American research scientist known for his work on B cell lymphomas and apoptosis. Born and educated in the US state of Illinois, Korsmeyer spent most of his career as a professor at Washington University School of Medicine and later the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute. He rose to prominence in the early 1980s as a research fellow at the National Cancer Institute. There he co-discovered the genetic cause of most cases of the cancer follicular lymphoma – the misregulation of the gene Bcl-2. Korsmeyer went on to start his own laboratory at Washington University in St. Louis, further studying the role of Bcl-2 in cell biology. His group's work expanded the paradigm of cancer-causing genes, providing the first example of how interfering with programmed cell death could lead to cancer development. Korsmeyer authored over 250 scientific papers over the course of his career. He was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences at the age of 45. Korsmeyer died of lung cancer in 2005, at the age of 54.

Career

1. 1950
   Born
2. 1993
   Won Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation Award for Distinguished Contributions to Cancer Research
3. 1997
   Won Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Cancer Research
4. 1998
   Won Stanley J. Korsmeyer Award
5. 1998
   Won Charles S. Mott Prize
6. 2000
   Won Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
7. 2005
   Passed away
8. Member of National Academy of Sciences
9. Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
10. Member of National Academy of Medicine

Trivia

• •Place of birth: Beardstown
• •Citizenship: United States
• •Known as: oncologist, university teacher