RARE “Cancer Pioneer" Dr Herman Eisen Hand Signed FDC Dated 1963 For Sale

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RARE “Cancer Pioneer" Dr Herman Eisen Hand Signed FDC Dated 1963:
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Up for sale "Cancer Researcher" Herman Eisen Hand Signed First Day Cover Dated 1963. 

was an He served on the faculty at New York

University School of Medicine in the early 1950s, became the

Chief of Dermatology at the Washington

University School of Medicine in 1955, and was a founding

member of the MIT Center for Cancer Research (now called the Koch

Institute for Integrative Cancer Research). Eisen retired and assumed professor emeritus status

in 1989, but continued to be active as a researcher; he was working on a

manuscript the day he died in 2014. Eisen was born in Brooklyn, New York in

1918, one of four children of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. His undergraduate studies at New York University began

in 1934 but were interrupted by a case of tuberculosis, which required him to withdraw from school for a

year; he later recalled this as a key event in his life inspiring him to focus

on intellectual activities. After graduation in 1939, he began as a medical

student at NYU and received his M.D. in

1943. He worked briefly as an assistant in pathology at Columbia University, where

he was first exposed to immunology research by Michael Heidelberger. He

then returned to NYU again for his residency. Eisen was one

of the first recipients of a new form of National Institutes of

Health fellowship for physician-scientists,

which supported further work at NYU with Fred Karush studying antibodies. Eisen next moved to Sloan-Kettering to work with David Pressman and

left after a year to return to NYU as a faculty member. Eisen's first faculty

position was at NYU in the then-new Department of Industrial Medicine, where he

was funded to work part-time as a researcher and invest the remainder of his

time in clinical practice. He found this combination unsustainable and therefore

was receptive when approached by Barry Wood to recruit him to Washington

University School of Medicine as the Chief of Dermatology

there. Eisen moved to Washington University in 1955

and spent five years in the position before moving to the Department of

Microbiology and serving as its chair. Following the National Cancer Act of

1971, Salvador Luria recruited

Eisen to become one of the founding members of MIT's new Center for Cancer

Research, where Eisen would spend the rest of his career. Eisen officially

retired in 1989, assuming professor emeritus status,

but remained active in research and in mentoring younger scientists in the MIT

community. During this time he worked with a number of MIT colleagues on their

ongoing projects, including Jianzhu Chen and Arup Chakraborty. Eisen

was elected a fellow of the American

Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1965, a member of the National Academy of

Sciences in 1969, and a member of the Institute of Medicine in

1974. He served as the president of the American

Association of Immunologists in 1968–69[1] and received the organization's Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997. Eisen's

research is regarded as foundational in the field of immunology. After his death, he was remembered as "the

last of the great immunochemists".He is particularly well known for his

studies of affinity maturation of antibodies beginning in the late 1950s while he was at

Washington University. Much of this work was conducted with postdoctoral fellow Lisa Steiner, who went on to become the first woman in the MIT

Department of Biology. In the 1980s Eisen changed research interests from

a focus on antibodies to a focus on T cells and cell-mediated immunity. Eisen's

wife Natalie was also a physician and practiced as a pediatrician in New York, served as Assistant Director

of Bellevue Hospital in

St. Louis, and then practiced at the Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center in Boston. The

couple had five children.[4] Eisen remained an active research scientist for

many years following his official retirement and was working on a manuscript

related to antibody affinity the day he died in 2014. 

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