Gerald Weissmann
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Gerald Weissmann (August 7, 1930 - July 10, 2019) was Emeritus Professor of Medicine (Rheumatology), Research Professor of Medicine, and past editor-in-chief of the FASEB Journal.
After majoring in fine arts at Columbia College (A.B., 1950) and receiving his M.D. at the NYU School of Medicine (1954), he interned at Mt. Sinai Hospital, and spent two years as a Captain in the U.S. Army. After another residency at Mt. Sinai, he became Lewis Thomas's first chief resident at Bellevue Hospital.
He then pursued postdoctoral research in biochemistry at NYU (with Severo Ochoa) and in cell biology at Cambridge University (with Dame Honor Fell). From 1973 to 2000, he was director of the Division of Rheumatology at NYU School of Medicine.
