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Appendix B: Biographies of Committee Members
Appendix B: Biographies of Committee Members
Pages 230-238
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Bloom worked at the National Institute of Mental Health, and at Yale University before moving to the Salk Institute in 1975. After a productive period of research there, he transferred his base of operations to the nearby Research Institute of Scripps Clinic in 1983 to re-establish the medical environment which has always played a major shaping role in his selection of research topics.
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study of fundamental control mechanisms for the neuroregulators, using analytical neurochemistry and biochemical neuroanatomy; and (3) exploration of the roles of neuroregulators in animal and human behavior as well as in human mental disorders and addictive states.
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She is a fellow of the American Academ' of Arts and Sciences; a member of the Renaissance Society of America the American Philosophical Society, the National Academy of Education and the Board of Overseers of Harvard University; and a trustee of BY Mawr College, the National Humanities Center, the Andrew W Mello Foundation, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the Center to Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
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Allan Bromley) and serves on the Special Medical Advisory Committee of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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She then became a founding investigator in the multicenter national trials to control hypertension and prevent coronary heart disease. Most recently, she has been responsible for one of the ground breaking research programs in cancer prevention.
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His research activities focus on securing a more firm scientific base for clinical psychiatry. For these activities he has won a number of awards, including the American Psychiatric Association Hofheimer Award, 197~, the Foundation Fund Award; the Anna Monika Prize; and the William Menninger Memorial Award from the American College of Physicians.
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Loewy demonstrated that actin and myosin were present in non-muscle cells, purified Factor XIII from blood plasma and showed that it crosslinked fibrin with isopeptide bonds and discovered a pytomatrix of covalently-crosslinked superfine filaments. His recent work is concerned with an enzyme capable of depolymerizing crosslinked fibrin by breaking isopeptide bonds.
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As a science policymaker and advisor, he has served as deputy chairman of the Defense Department Research and Development Board, director of the Social Science Research Council, vice president of the Ford Foundation, board chairman of the Twentieth Century Fund, and president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He also worked with former President Herbert Hoover on the Hoover Commission study of the organization of the U.S.
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He has received support from the National Institutes of Health, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Air Force, the American Cancer Society, and a variety of private research foundations.
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