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    Gerald D.

    Aurbach
    Gerald D. Aurbach (March 24, 1927 – November 4,
    1991) was an American medical scientist noted for his Gerald D. Aurbach
    studies of parathyroid diseases, bone metabolism and Born March 24, 1927
    calcium homeostasis.[1][2] Aurbach was the first Cleveland, Ohio
    researcher to produce a hormone produced by Died November 4, 1991 (aged 64)
    parathyroid glands. Charlottesville, Virginia
    Alma mater University of Virginia (Bachelor
    Aurbach began studying PTH as a medical student in
    Degree, 1950; MD, 1954)[1]
    the lab of Dr. William Parson. He continued this
    research as a fellow as Tufts University School of
    Medicine in the lab of Ted Astwood. Here, he was the first to isolate PTH using phenol extraction, and in
    1959 he published a landmark paper on this discovery. In 1959, he joined the lab of William Jakoby at the
    National Institutes of Health, and two years later he established his own lab in the Metabolic Diseases
    Branch. He became chief of the branch in 1973, and remained at the institute for the remainder of his
    career.[1]

    He determined that parathyroid hormone acts through cyclic AMP, and demonstrated that
    pseudohypoparathyroidism is a disorder of the parathyroid hormone receptor complex.[2] He also
    characterized several hereditary diseases related to hyperparathyroidism.

    In 1973, he was named director of the metabolic diseases branch of the National Institutes of Health, and
    was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1986.[2]

    Aurbach was killed in 1991 while visiting the University of Virginia in an apparent homicide by a stone
    thrown from a car.[2]

    Notable awards and distinctions


    1960: the John Horsely Memorial Award from the University of Virginia[1]
    1968: the Andre Lichiwitz Prize from France[1]
    1981: the William F. Neuman Award of the American Society for Bone and Mineral
    Research[1]
    1983: the Gairdner Foundation International Award[1]
    1986: elected to the National Academy of Sciences[1][2]
    1985: the Edwin B. Astwood Award from the Endocrine Society[1]
    1988: the Public Health Service Distinguished Service Medal[1]

    Memorials
    Both the Endocrine Society and the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research have established
    memorial lectures in his name.[1] The University of Virginia School of Medicine established the Gerald
    D. Aurbach Professorship in Endocrinology, and in 2002, dedicated a new medical research building in
    his name.[1]

    References
    1. National Academy of Science;Biographical Memoirs: V. 90 (2009) GERALD DONALD
    AURBACH;BY IRA PASTAN (http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=12562&page=3)
    2. Gerald Aurbach, 64, U.S. Health Researcher November 06, 1991 (https://www.nytimes.com/
    1991/11/06/obituaries/gerald-aurbach-64-us-health-researcher.html)

    External links
    Ira Pastan, "Gerald Donald Aurbach", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of
    Sciences (2007) (http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/a
    urbach-gerald-d.pdf)

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