1. Gerald Weissmann was Professor Emeritus and Research Professor of Medicine at New York University School of Medicine.
14 Facts About Gerald Weissmann
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Gerald Weissmann's family, being Jewish, fled the Nazis and immigrated to the United States in 1938, and Gerald and his family became naturalized American citizens in 1943.
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Gerald Weissmann pursued an early career in art, exhibiting at a major New York gallery.
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Gerald Weissmann then returned to the NYU School of Medicine, joining its faculty, where he remained for the rest of his career.
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Gerald Weissmann became Professor of Medicine at NYU in 1970, and served as director of the Division of Rheumatology from 1973 to 1999.
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Gerald Weissmann was best known for having presented evidence that rheumatoid arthritis is an immune-complex disease.
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Gerald Weissmann's laboratory found that crises in systemic lupus erythematosus are provoked by intravascular complement activation.
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Gerald Weissmann was responsible for the co-discovery of liposomes in 1965 and credited with coining that name by the Oxford Dictionary of the English Language.
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Dr Gerald Weissmann has received the Lila Gruber Award for Cancer Research two residencies at the Rockefeller Foundation Study Center at Bellagio, the Alessandro Robecchi and Paul Klemperer awards for inflammation research, as well as the Distinguished Investigator and Presidential Gold Medal Awards of the American College of Rheumatology.
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Gerald Weissmann is a foreign member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei of Rome and the Royal Society of Medicine of London.
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Gerald Weissmann was a master and past president of the American College of Rheumatology, a past president of the Harvey Society, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, The New York Academy of Medicine and The New York Academy of Sciences.
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From 1975 to 2001, Gerald Weissmann was the founding editor of the journal, Inflammation; from 1979 to 1984, he edited MD Magazine, and from 2006 to 2016 he served as editor-in-chief of The FASEB Journal.
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Gerald Weissmann's work has been collected in eleven volumes, among them The Woods Hole Cantata and The Fevers of Reason.
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Gerald Weissmann's work was praised for scientific insight by Jonas Salk, for literary style by Kurt Vonnegut, and for breadth of general culture by Adam Gopnik.