Curtis Lynea Meinert (June 30, 1934 – June 13, 2023) was an American clinical trialist. He was a professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at

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Life

Meinert was born on June 30, 1934, on a farm outside

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. His parents were Mabel Eleanor Christensen and Arthur August Edward Meinert. He was raised in rural

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. He completed a B.A. in psychology from the

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in 1956. He earned a doctor of philosophy in statistics at University of Minnesota in 1964. His dissertation was titled ''Quantitation of the isotope displacement of immunoassay of insulin''. His advisor was Richard B. McHugh. Meinert was the head of a clinical trial coordinating center at

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. Meinert researched randomized clinical trials for AIDS, cardiovascular diseases, and asthma. He was a professor of epidemiology and biostatistics and the inaugural director of the Center for Clinical Trials at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In 1979, Meinert was elected a fellow of the

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. In 1995, he was elected

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. He was a 2001 Fellow of the

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. In 2006, he was elected a fellow of the

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. In 2005, Johns Hopkins University established the professorship, Curtis L. Meinert Professor of Clinical Trials. Meinert married Susan J. Matson on June 22, 1957. They had three daughters. He died on June 13, 2023, at the age of 88.

References

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