Hubert Jacob Paul Schoemaker was a Dutch biotechnologist.
11 Facts About Hubert Schoemaker
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Hubert Schoemaker was a co-founder and the president of one of America's first biotechnology companies, Centocor, which was founded in 1979 for the commercialising of monoclonal antibodies.
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Hubert Schoemaker attended St Bernardus School in Deventer, and Canisius College, Nijmegen.
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Hubert Schoemaker then earned a doctorate in biochemistry in 1975 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Hubert Schoemaker's choice was influenced by the severe disabilities suffered by his first daughter, Maureen, who was born with lissencephaly and needed specialised care.
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In 1976 Hubert Schoemaker joined Corning Medical, a Boston-based division of Corning Glass Works.
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At Corning Hubert Schoemaker rapidly progressed from being a specialist in immunoassay development for diagnostics to heading research and development.
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In 1979 Hubert Schoemaker became involved in the founding of Centocor together with a former Corning Medical colleague Ted Allen and the bioentrepreneur Michael Wall with whom he had some dealings while at Corning.
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In 1980 Hubert Schoemaker joined Centocor and soon after became its first chief executive officer.
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Hubert Schoemaker was diagnosed in 1994 with a form of brain cancer, medulloblastoma.
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Hubert Schoemaker died on January 1,2006, at age 55.