Elizabeth Fondal Neufeld (born September 27, 1928) is a French-American geneticist whose research has focused on the genetic basis of metabolic disease in humans.

Life

Neufeld and her Russian Jewish family emigrated to the United States from Paris in 1940; they had left Europe as refugees to escape Nazi persecution. The family settled in New York, where she attended

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before graduating from

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in 1948 with a

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. She went on to work as a research assistant at the

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, looking at blood disorders in

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. Later on, she attended graduate school at

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, where she earned a Ph.D. in 1956 for her work on nucleotides and complex carbohydrates. Neufeld has been widely recognized for her contributions to science. She is a member of the

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and the

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. She was elected to the

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in 1977. Neufeld has been awarded the

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, the

Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award is one of four annual awards presented by the Lasker Foundation. The Lasker-DeBakey award is given to honor outstanding work for the understanding, diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and cure of disea ...

, and was awarded the

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in 1994 "for her contributions to the understanding of the lysosomal storage diseases, demonstrating the strong linkage between basic and applied scientific investigation." Neufeld retired in 2004 from

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as Chair of the Department of Biological Chemistry, a position she occupied since 1984.

Personal life

Elizabeth Fondal married Benjamin S. Neufeld in 1951; they had two children together.Benjamin S. Neufeld September 5, 1926 - March 28, 2020
Mount Sinai Parks. Accessed Feb. 27, 2022.

Selected publications

Ohmi K, Greenberg DS, Rajavel KS, Ryazantsev S, Li HH, Neufeld EF., (2003),
Activated microglia in cortex of mouse models of mucopolysaccharidoses I and IIIB.
''Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America''. 100: 1902-7. PMID 12576554 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.252784899 Elizabeth F. Neufeld, W.Z. Hassid,(1963),
Biosynthesis of Saccharides from Glycopyranosyl Esters of Nucleotides (“Sugar Nucleotides”)
Editor(s): Melville L. Wolfrom, R. Stuart Tipson, Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry,Academic Press,Volume 18,1963,Pages 309-356,ISSN 0096-5332,ISBN 9780120072187, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0096-5332(08)60246-5.

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External links

Home Page at UCLA
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Life

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