Awards & Winners

Gerald D. Aurbach

Date of Birth 24-March-1927
Place of Birth Cleveland
(United States of America, Ohio, Cuyahoga County, Area code 216)
Nationality
Dr. Gerald D. Aurbach was an American medical scientist noted for his studies of parathyroid diseases, bone metabolism and calcium homeostasis. Aurbach was the first researcher to produce a hormone produced by parathyroid glands. In 1973, he was named director of the metabolic diseases branch of the National Institutes of Health, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1986. Aurbach was killed in an apparent homicide by a stone thrown from a car.

Awards by Gerald D. Aurbach

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1983


Gairdner Foundation International Award
(For his pioneering work in the purification of parathyroid hormone and his continuing studies of its mechanism of action.)