Anthony Cerami

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name = Anthony Cerami


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birth_date = October 3, 1940
birth_place = Newark, New Jersey
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nationality = American
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known_for = Medical Research
education = Rockefeller University
employer = Warren Pharmaceuticals
occupation = Scientist
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website = [http://www.warrenpharma.com/pages/bios/Cerami.html]
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Anthony Cerami is an award-winning research scientist.

Biography

Anthony Cerami is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) and the Institute of Medicine. He received a Ph.D. in 1967 from The Rockefeller University, New York, USA, completed postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts, USA, and at the Jackson Laboratory, Maine, USA, and served for 20 years as Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Medical Biochemistry, and Dean of Graduate and Postgraduate Studies at Rockefeller.citation |title=Corporate Profile |last=Cerami |first=Anthony |url=http://www.warrenpharma.com/pages/bios/Cerami.html |accessdate=2008-07-25 ] . In 1991, Dr. Cerami left the Rockefeller University to found the Picower Institute for Medical Research which later changed its name to the Feinstein Institute for Medical Researchcitation |title=New York Times article: Noted scientist and staff leave Rockefeller U|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE6DD163AF932A3575BC0A967958260|accessdate=2008-07-30 ] . In 1996, Dr. Cerami and his daughter Carla Cerami Hand established the Kenneth S. Warren Institute, a not-for-profit biomedical research organization.

Research

Anthony Cerami has led research programs into genetic, metabolic and infectious diseases, with the goal of translating scientific discovery into clinically important products. Among the successes of his approach are: glycated hemoglobin to monitor diabetic control cite journal |author=Koenig RJ, Peterson CM, Jones RL, Saudek C, Lehrman M, Cerami A |title=Correlation of glucose regulation and hemoglobin AIc in diabetes mellitus |journal=N. Engl. J. Med. |volume=295 |issue=8 |pages=417–20 |year=1976 |pmid=934240 |doi=] , anti-tumour necrosis factor-alpha therapies to treat inflammatory diseases cite journal |author=Beutler B, Milsark IW, Cerami A |title=Passive immunization against cachectin/tumor necrosis factor protects mice from lethal effect of endotoxin.|journal=N. Engl. J. Med. |volume=229 |issue=4716 |pages=869-71 |year=1985 |pmid=3895437|doi=] , cite journal |author=Ghezzi P, Cerami A. |title=Tumor necrosis factor as a pharmacological target |journal=Mol Biotechnol. |volume=31 |issue=3 |pages=239-44–20 |year=2005 |pmid=16230774|doi=] and, recently, tissue protective cytokines to safely treat devastating diseases and injuries cite journal |author=Leist M, Ghezzi P, Grasso G, Bianchi R, Villa P, Fratelli M, Savino C, Bianchi M, Nielsen J, Gerwien J, Kallunki P, Larsen AK, Helboe L, Christensen S, Pedersen LO, Nielsen M, Torup L, Sager T, Sfacteria A, Erbayraktar S, Erbayraktar Z, Gokmen N, Yilmaz O, Cerami-Hand C, Xie QW, Coleman T, Cerami A, Brines M. |title=Derivatives of erythropoietin that are tissue protective but not erythropoietic |journal=Science |volume=305 |issue=5681 |pages=184–5 |year=2004 |pmid=15247477 |doi=] cite journal |author=Brines M, Cerami A. |title=A boost for translational neuroscience|journal=Science|volume=305 |issue=5681 |pages=184–5 |year=2004 |pmid=15247460 |doi=] cite journal |author=Brines M, Cerami A |title=Discovering erythropoietin's extra-hematopoietic functions: biology and clinical promise. |journal=Kidney Int. |volume=70 |issue=2 |pages=246–50 |year=2006 |pmid=16738535 |doi=] . He is the recipient the Luft Award in Diabetescitation |title=Profile of Anthony Cerami in Cancer Research |url=http://http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/cgi/issue_pdf/frontmatter_pdf/55/10.pdf|accessdate=2008-07-30 ] and the Frederick Banting Medal for Scientific Achievement, awarded by the American Diabetes Association in recognition of his lifelong work on diabetes.

References

External links

* [http://www.warrenpharma.com/pages/bios/Cerami.html Dr. Cerami's Corporate Profile at Warren Pharmaceuticals]
* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Search&db=PubMed&term=Anthony%20Cerami%5Bauthor%5D List of Dr. Cerami's publications at PubMed]