Obituaries

Please celebrate the lives and accomplishments of our distinguished members. The obituaries are posted alphabetically and can be found within the tabs below.

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Seymour Kaufman, 1924-2009 (PDF 173Kb)

In Dr. Kaufman's five years at New York University, he matured into an outstanding enzymologist and biochemist and made his first major contribution to biochemistry, the discovery of substrate phosphorylation in the conversion of a-ketoglutarate to succinate in the tricarboxylic acid cycle.

Saul M. Schanberg (PDF 129Kb)

Dr. Schanberg is globally recognized for his ground-breaking research on the importance of touch in normal growth and development, finding that specific types of touch led to better health and shorter hospital stays for premature infants. His discoveries changed the way hospitals and clinics all over the world care for premature infants.

Lee N. Robins, 1922-2009 (PDF 262Kb)

The research of Lee N. Robins, Ph.D, placed her at the forefront of psychiatric epidemiology research, with a career spanning five decades. Her early work focused on the effect of psychiatric disorders occurring in childhood on later adult life, spawning her seminal work, “Deviant Children Grown Up”, published by Williams & Wilkins in 1966.

Sidney Merlis, 1925-2009 (PDF 124Kb)

Dr. Merlis' research center was one of the first 15 awardees when Jonathan Cole and the Psychopharmacology Service Center established the Early Clinical Drug Evaluation program in 1960. He was a founding member of both the ACNP (1961) and the CINP (1962).

Jonathan O. Cole, 1925-2009 (PDF 174Kb)

Dr. Cole, a founder and early ACNP president, received the first Paul Hoch Distinguished Service Award. As CINP secretary, 1965-1969, his contributions were recognized with the coveted Pioneers in Psychopharmacology award.

Erminio Costa, 1924-2009 (PDF 219Kb)

Dr. Costa's enthusiasm and ability to translate scientific hypotheses into successful experiments were contagious for all his collaborators—more than 300 in 60 years.

Elizabeth A. Young (PDF 168Kb)

Dr. Young was an internationally renowned biological psychiatrist who conducted seminal work on stress biology and its role in severe depression and other mood disorders. She was elected to the ACNP in 1996.

Wagner H. Bridger (PDF 79Kb)

Wagner H. Bridger, M.D., published over 100 papers, was a founding member of the Society of Biological Psychiatry and President of the Society in 1988 and Editor of the journal from 1992-1997.

Norm Weiner (PDF 185Kb)

Norm Weiner, M.D., best known for his pioneering work on catecholamine synthesis, storage, and release, was equally committed to scientific research and to education, making enormous contributions to the development of leaders and to science policy.

Gary Tollefson 1951-2009 (PDF 160Kb)

During his academic career, Dr. Tollefson's work focused primarily on antidepressants and anxiolytic drugs. He contributed important research on interaction of antidepressants and other psychotropic drugs with muscarinic-cholinergic receptors, predicting their propensity to produce anticholinergic side effects.

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