Colin Munro MacLeod

Colin Munro MacLeod ( born January 28, 1909 in Port Hastings, Nova Scotia, Canada, † February 11, 1972 ) was a Canadian-American geneticist. He studied from 1925 to 1932 at McGill University medicine. After a stay at the Montreal General Hospital in 1934, he went to the Rockefeller University, where he conducted research on the transformation of Streptococcus pneumoniae among Oswald Avery and Rufus Cole. He was there engaged in the elucidation of the DNA as the carrier of genetic information.

In 1941 he became head of the Department of Microbiology at New York University. During the Second World War MacLeod worked as an advisor to the government on health matters. From 1947 to 1955 he was director of the Armed Forces Epidemiological Board. He also served in the years 1951/1952 as president of the American Association of Immunologists.

In 1955 he became a member of the National Academy of Sciences. From 1956 to 1960 he was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, he returned as a professor back at the New York University. In 1961 he was Chairman of the Life Sciences Panel of the Science Advisory Committee of John F. Kennedy. Kennedy appointed him in 1963 as Deputy Director of the Office of Science and Technology (OST ), which he remained until 1966. In addition to epidemiological works, MacLeod had merit in the following period to the cooperation between American and Japanese scientists in the framework of the Japan Cooperative Medical Science Program.

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  • Geneticist
  • Canadian
  • Americans
  • Born in 1909
  • Died in 1972
  • Man
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