Isaac Starr

Isaac Starr ( * 1895 in Philadelphia, † 22 June 1989 in Roxborough in Philadelphia ) was an American physiologist and pharmacologist at the University of Pennsylvania.

Life

Starr acquired in 1916 at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, a bachelor and 1920 at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, an MD as graduation from medical school. After two years as an assistant physician at Massachusetts General Hospital brought him Alfred Newton Richards as a lecturer in pharmacology at the University of Pennsylvania, whose faculty Starr belonged to for 44 years. In 1933, Starr Hartzell Professor of Research Therapeutics. From 1945 to 1948 he was dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. 1961 Starr was given emeritus status, but was scientifically active until 1986. Starr was married to Edith Nelson Page. The couple had four children.

Work and awards

Starr did research on the physiology of the kidney, to the pathophysiology of heart failure and for the treatment of peripheral arterial occlusive disease. Starr developed in 1939 Ballistocardiography of Yandell Henderson to the application stage, a non-invasive method to win at the body surface information about forces inside the heart and in particular on the cardiac output. For this and his other fundamental contributions to the understanding of the cardiovascular system In 1957 he was awarded the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research. Other awards were the 1967 Kober Medal of the Association of American Physicians, 1977, the Burger Medal of the Free University of Amsterdam and in 1983 an honorary doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania.

Starr was a founding member of the Department of Cardiovascular Research at the National Institutes of Health ( NHI ), years -long member of the Committee on Drug Dependence of the National Research Council ( NRC), served 20 years as a member of the committee for the revision of the United States Pharmacopeia ( USP) and 17 years as Member of the Pharmaceutical Council of the American Medical Association ( AMA), including three years as chairman. He was one of the editors of scientific journals American Heart Journal and Circulation. Starr was on the board of the American Society for Clinical Investigation.