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FROM THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY *4 1i23oYORK AVCNUE. NEW YORK.NCw'YORK 10021 CO•NTACT Fulvio Bardossi or Jtudith• N. Schwartz. Public Information 212: 360-1261 BIOGRAPHY OF ATTALLAH KAPPAS, PROFESSOR AND PHYSICIAN-IN-CHIEF Professor Attallah Kappas, physician-in,-chief of The Rockefeller University received his A.B. degree from Columbia University in 1947 and the M.D. degree with honors from the University of Chi'sago in 1950. He was an American Cancer environmental chemicals. Dr. Kappas was born in, Union City, New Jersey, on- it Hospital and: head of the University's metabolism-pharmacology laboratory, is a leading authority in the fields of hepatic-metabolic diseases, biochemical and clinical pharmacology, and environmental medicine. The Rockefeller University Hospital, found•ed in 1910' as the first in the country devoted solely to clinical research, treats selected patients who suffer from disorders under study at the University. Dr. Kappas's own areas of clinical research involve studies of the porphyrias and other genetic liverr diseases; disorders related to hereditary and acquired abnormalities of the heme pathway such as lead poisoning, certain• anemias, etc., and illnesses caused by deug•s and Societry Research Fellow at the Sloan-Kettering Institute and at The Cornell Utniversity Medical College, from 1951 to 1954; and subsequently (1954-1957) -more-

R: REDACTED MATERIAL . . , KAPPAS -2- served on the staffs of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital Harvard Medical: Schooi, Sloan-Kettering, and Cornell. He was appointed to the facul!ty of the University of Chicago~ School of Medicine in. 1957, where he served as head of the Section, of Metabolism and Arthritis in- the Department of Medicine during the period 1957-1967. He was a Commonwealth Fund Fellow and visiting scientist at the Courtauld Institute of Biochemistry. The Middlesex Hospital Medical School,. London, Eng4nd during. 1961-1.962;. and was a guest investigator and John, Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow at The Rockefeller University in 1966., before being appointed to the faculty in 1967. He was named physician-in-chief in 1974. Dr. Kappas has published extensively in his fields of research and' clinical interests and has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinolbgy and Meta:bolism: The Swiss Journal of Pharmacology; The Journal of Experimental Medicine; Pharmacology; and' Clihical Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. 3 REDACTED t awarded a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Special Award in Clinical Pharmacology in 1973; and a Distiiiguished: Service Award in Medical Science from. the University of Chicago in 1975. He has served as the Sir Henry Hallet Dale Memorial Lecturer and Visiting Professor in Clinical Pharmacology at Johns Hopkins Medical School, (1975); the Pfizer Lecturer and Visiting. Professor in Clinical Pharmacology at the Peter Bent -more-

R: REDACTED MATERIAL ' 1CAPPAS -3- Br•igham Hospital, Harvard Medical School (1977); and has received the ASPET Award for Distinguished Research- in Experimental Therapeutics. of the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (1978)~. REDACTED March, 1978 d :•).