Jerome Gross
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Jerome Gross (February 25, 1917 - January 27, 2014) was an American biologist and member of the National Academy of Sciences.[1] His research at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital in the 1950s helped launch the fields of collagen research.[2]
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Jerome Gross | |
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Born | February 25, 1917 New York City, New York, U.S. |
Died | January 27, 2014 Waban, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine |
Known for | Pioneering work in collagen research |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Biology |
Institutions | Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital |
In 1969, Gross was promoted to Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and named Biologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital. In the preceding decades, scientists from around the world traveled to his Developmental Biology Laboratory in the Department of Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital to study his work on collagen structure,[3] wound healing,[4] and limb regeneration.[5]
In 1987, Gross became Professor Emeritus of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. The following year, he became the first Paul Klemperer Award recipient at the New York Academy of Medicine. In 1995 he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by The Wound Healing Society.
Gross spent over 60 years on the faculty of Harvard and in the labs of Mass General Hospital. He died one month shy of his 97th birthday in Waban, Massachusetts, of natural causes.