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chemist, member of the National Academy of

Sciences and the American

Academy of Arts and Sciences. He held 200 patents on chemical

compounds, with 43 listing him as the sole holder. He was a professor of

chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Chicago. Fried

discovered fluorohydrocortisone, a chemical used to treat adrenal disorders. He was also director of the organic chemistry

at the Squibb Institute. His discoveries were instrumental to the creation

of medications to treat inflammatory disorders including as arthritis, psoriasis, and various skin allergien National Academies Press called

him "an outstanding organic chemist who made very special contributions to

the field of medicine".Professor Elias James Corey (Nobel laureate, 1990) had this to say

of Fried: "He was an outstanding, highly creative scientist who straddled

both the worlds of pharmaceutical research and academic science. He was one of

my heroes, and I've always thought of him as a model scientist of great

character and great human warmth." Fried became a member of the National

Academy of Sciences in 1971. He became a member of the American Academy of

Arts and Sciences in 1981. He received the Medicinal Chemistry Award in 1974

from the American Chemical Society.

He also received the Alfred Burger Award in Medicinal Chemistry in 1996. He also received the Gregory Pincus Medal

from the Worcester

Foundation for Experimental Biology and the Roussel Prize from

the Roussel Scientific Institute in Paris in 1994. Bristol-Myers Squibb and

the University of Chicago launched in 1990 the first of a series of annual

Josef Fried Symposia of Bioorganic Chemistry. Fried is a member of the

Medicinal Chemistry Hall of Fame. Josef Fried was born in the town of Przemyśl, Poland, on July 21, 1914. Fried

received his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Columbia University in

1940. Fried joined the Squibb Institute in 1944 as a head of its antibiotics

and steroids department. He was later promoted to director of the organic

chemistry section in 1959. In 1963 Fried was appointed professor at the

Ben May Laboratory for Cancer Research at the University of Chicago

"Discovered Fluorohydrocortisone" Josef Fried Hand Signed Announcement From 1983

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