Name: 

Ira Harry Pastan

 

Date and place of birth: 

June 1, 1931; Winthrop, Massachusetts

 

Marital Status: 

Married, 3 children

 

Education: 

    1953 B.S.   -- Magna cum laude, Tufts College

    1957 M.D. -- Magna cum laude, Tufts Medical School

Brief chronology of employment: 

    1957-1958    -- Intern, Grace-New Haven Hospital, Yale
                                University School of Medicine

    1958-1959    -- Assistant Research Medicine, Grace-New
                                Haven Hospital, Yale University School
                                of Medicine

    1959-1961    -- Clinical Associate, NIAMD, National
                                Insititutes of Health

    1961-1962    -- Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of
                                Cellular Physiology, NHLI, National
                                Institutes of Health

    1963-1969    -- Senior Investigator, Section on Endocrine
                                Biochemistry, Clinical Endocrinology Branch,
                                NIAMD, National Institutes of Health

    1969-1970    -- Head, Molecular Biology Section, Endocrinology
                                Branch, NCI, National Institutes of Health

    1970-present -- Chief, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, DCBDC,
                                NCI, National Institutes of Health

Societies: 

Alpha Omega Alpha

 American Society of Clinical Investigation

 American Society of Biological Chemists

 American Association for the Advancement of Science

 American Society for Microbiology

 American Society for Cell Biology

 Peripatetic Club

 National Academy of Sciences

 American Association of Physicians

 American Academy of Arts and Sciences

 Molecular Biology Society

 

Other special scientific recognition: 

    G. Burroughs Mider Lectureship - National Institutes of
        Health, 1973

    Chariman - Gordon Conference, "Cell Adhesion, Recongnition
        and Movement," 1981

    Organizer - US-Japan Cooperative Cancer Research Program
        in Cell Biology

    Counselor for American Society of Cell Biology

    Scientific Council - International Institute of Cellular
        and Molecular Pathology, Brussels, 1979-present

    President's National Advisory Council for Research, Howard
        University

    Pierce Immunotoxin Award, 1988

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