1. Louise Pearce was an American pathologist at the Rockefeller Institute who helped develop a treatment for African sleeping sickness.
16 Facts About Louise Pearce
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In 1920, Louise Pearce traveled to the Belgian Congo where she designed and carried out a drug testing protocol for human trials to establish tryparsamide's safety, effectiveness, and optimum dosage.
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Louise Pearce successfully developed treatment protocols to apply tryparsamide to syphilis.
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Louise Pearce spent much of her career studying animal models of cancer.
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Louise Pearce was born on March 5,1885, in Winchester, Massachusetts.
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Louise Pearce was the eldest child of Charles Ellis Pearce and Susan Elizabeth Hoyt.
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The family moved to California, where Louise Pearce attended the Girls Collegiate School in Los Angeles.
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Louise Pearce then worked for a year in the hospital as a house officer, serving at the Phipps Psychiatric Clinic.
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Louise Pearce was recommended by Dr Welch of Johns Hopkins as "a promising medical pathologist".
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In 1913, Louise Pearce took a research position at the Rockefeller Institute, the first female to be so appointed.
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Louise Pearce worked as an assistant to Dr Simon Flexner, the Institute's director.
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Louise Pearce remained at Rockefeller Institute for the rest of her career, from 1913 to 1951.
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Louise Pearce was elected as a member of the Belgian Society of Tropical Medicine and attended European meetings from 1921 to 1939.
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Brown and Louise Pearce systematically studied syphilis in rabbits, over a period of about 6 years.
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Louise Pearce's shelves were crowded with many old editions of medical treasures, the latest scientific literature and the latest works on international questions.
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Louise Pearce had a wonderful collection of Chinese carvings and porcelains.