User:Geraldlitwack

Gerald (Gerry) Litwack, PhD was born in Boston, Massachusetts and grew up in Springfield, Massachusetts. After completing his BA degree at Hobart College in Geneva, New York, he attended graduate school majoring in biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin, earning a MS degree and then a PhD degree in 1953. Following an instructorship in biochemistry (enzymology) at the University of Wisconsin, he spent a year in Paris at the Biochemical Laboratories of the Sorbonne as a Fellow of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. In 1954, he left Paris for an Assistant Professorship at Rutgers University in the Department of Biochemistry, College of Agriculture and in 1960 became an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1964, he was appointed as Professor of Biochemistry at the Fels Institute of Cancer Research and Molecular Biology, Temple Medical School in Philadelphia. Later he was appointed the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Biochemistry and Deputy Director of the Institute. In 1991 he moved, with many other members of the Fels Institute to Thomas Jefferson University Medical College where he was appointed Professor and Chairman of the Departmen of Pharmacology and Deputy Director of the Kimmel Cancer Center. Later on, he was appointed to the joint Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology as Chairman and also eventually became Vice Dean for Research, holding both positions simultaneously. He retired from Jefferson in 2005. His research interests were in steroid hormone receptor action and cancer research. He trained many graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in his laboratory and had many sabbatical visitors from universities around the world. He has published some 300 research papers and reviews, written and edited a large number of books. The latest writing venture is a textbook entitled: "Human Biochemistry and Disease", Academic Press/Elsevier scheduled to be published in the late fall of 2007. His most recent edited book in press is entitled "Ghrelin" by the same Publisher. He is continuing his writing and editing activities and playing golf. Currently, he resides with his family in Toluca Lake, California, a village in North Hollywood, Los Angeles. He can be contacted at gerryl29@hotmail.com or gerry.litwack@gmail.com.