Samuel Strober

Samuel Strober
Died(2022-02-11)February 11, 2022
NationalityAmerican
EducationColumbia College
Harvard Medical School
OccupationPhysician
Spouse
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Medical career
InstitutionsStanford Medical School

Samuel Strober ((1940-05-08)May 8, 1940-February 11, 2022(2022-02-11) (aged 81)[1]) was a biomedical researcher and inventor best known for his work on the elimination of the need for lifelong immune suppressive drugs in organ transplant patients.[2]

Strober was born in Brooklyn, New York, on May 8, 1940, and received his bachelor's degree from Columbia College in 1961,[1][3] and his MD from the Harvard Medical School[4] in 1966. He also studied at Massachusetts General[5] and Stanford University Hospitals[6] and the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology[7] at Oxford University.

He was chief of the Division of Immunology and Rheumatology[8][9] at the Stanford University School of Medicine (1979–1997); a co-founder of a biotechnology company, Dendreon, that developed the first FDA approved cancer vaccination; President of the Clinical Immunology Society (1996);[10] and chairman of the Board of Directors of the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology.[11][12][13] He also co-founded Medeor Therapeutics.[14]

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  2. ^ "In Memoriam: Sam Strober, MD". American Society of Transplantation. February 22, 2022. Archived from the original on April 19, 2022. Retrieved July 6, 2022.
  3. ^ "Obituaries". Columbia College Today. 2022-06-17. Archived from the original on 2022-06-23. Retrieved 2022-06-23.
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  5. ^ "Massachusetts General Hospital". Massachusetts General Hospital. Archived from the original on 2022-02-09. Retrieved 2022-02-12.
  6. ^ "Stanford Health Care (SHC) – (formerly Stanford Hospital & Clinics)".
  7. ^ "Sir William Dunn School of Pathology |". www.path.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2017-02-26. Retrieved 2017-03-06.
  8. ^ "Research - Immunology & Rheumatology - Stanford Medicine". Archived from the original on 2016-04-21. Retrieved 2016-06-22.
  9. ^ Bruce Goldman. "Stanford Medicine professor James Fries, proponent of healthy aging, dies at 83". Stanford Medicine News Center. Archived from the original on 2021-12-30. Retrieved 2022-07-06.
  10. ^ "Clinical Immunology Society". Archived from the original on 2016-06-29. Retrieved 2016-06-22.
  11. ^ "LIAI Board of Directors Samuel Strober, MD Board - La Jolla Institute ..." yumpu.com. Archived from the original on 2022-02-12. Retrieved 2022-02-12.
  12. ^ "board of directors". La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology. Archived from the original on 2007-12-29.
  13. ^ "Board of Directors". La Jolla Institute for Immunology. Archived from the original on 2022-02-12. Retrieved 2022-02-12.
  14. ^ "Scientific Founders". Medeor Therapeutics. Archived from the original on 2022-03-01. Retrieved 2022-07-06.