Elizabeth F. Neufeld

Elizabeth Fondal Neufeld ( born September 27, 1928 in Paris) is an American geneticist whose research was focused on the genetic causes of human metabolic diseases.

Neufeld emigrated in 1940 to Paris with her Russian-Jewish family in the United States; they had left Europe to escape persecution by the German Nazis.

The family settled in New York where Neufeld the Hunter College High School and then attended Queens College, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Science in 1948. She went then as a research assistant at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor (Maine ), where they examined blood diseases of mice. Later she continued her studies at the University of California at Berkeley, where he was a PhD in 1956 for her work on nucleotides and complex hydrocarbons.

Neufeld was honored for her contributions in many cases, they got including a Gairdner Foundation International Award ( 1981), the Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research and the William Allan Award (both 1982), the Wolf Prize (1988) and the National Medal of Science ( 1994) awarded to the latter. "For their contributions to the understanding of lysosomal storage diseases, in which it has a close connection between basic and applied research showed. " She remained at UCLA

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