Samuel Strober

Samuel Strober (died February 11, 2022 (aged 81–82)[1]) is a biomedical researcher and inventor best known for his work on the elimination of the need for life long immune suppressive drugs in organ transplant patients.[1]

Strober received his bachelor's degree from Columbia College[2] in 1961, and his MD from the Harvard Medical School [3] in 1966. He also studied at Massachusetts General[4] and Stanford University Hospitals[5] and the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology[6] at Oxford University.

He was chief of the Division of Immunology and Rheumatology[7][8] 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);[9] and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology.[10][11][12]He also co-founded Medeor Therapeutics.[13]

Personal life

His first wife is feminist economist Myra Strober, who decided to keep the Strober last name after she remarried.[14][15]

References
  1. "In Memoriam: Sam Strober, MD". American Society of Transplantation. February 22, 2022.
  2. "Columbia College".
  3. hms.harvard.edu/
  4. "Massachusetts General Hospital". Massachusetts General Hospital.
  5. "Stanford Health Care (SHC) – (formerly Stanford Hospital & Clinics)".
  6. "Sir William Dunn School of Pathology |". www.path.ox.ac.uk.
  7. "Research - Immunology & Rheumatology - Stanford Medicine".
  8. Bruce Goldman. "Stanford Medicine professor James Fries, proponent of healthy aging, dies at 83". Stanford Medicine News Center.
  9. "Clinical Immunology Society".
  10. "LIAI Board of Directors Samuel Strober, MD Board - La Jolla Institute ..." yumpu.com.
  11. http://livesite.liai.org/pages/faculty-research
  12. "Board of Directors". La Jolla Institute for Immunology.
  13. "Scientific Founders". Medeor Therapeutics.
  14. Myra Strober (2016). Sharing the Work: What My Family and Career Taught Me about Breaking Through (and Holding the Door Open for Others). John Donahoe (forward). MIT Press. pp. 181–182. ISBN 9780262034388.
  15. Ghent, Janet Silver (May 27, 2016). "Memoir covers trailblazing life of Stanford professor".
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