Samuel Strober (-) was a biomedical researcher and inventor best known for his work on the elimination of the need for life long immune suppressive drugs in

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patients. Strober was born in Brooklyn, New York, on May 8, 1940, and received his bachelor's degree from

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in 1961, and his MD from the

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in 1966. He also studied at Massachusetts General and Stanford University Hospitals and the

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. He was chief of the Division of Immunology and Rheumatology at the

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(1979–1997); a co-founder of a biotechnology company,

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, that developed the first FDA approved cancer vaccination; President of the Clinical Immunology Society (1996); and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the

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. He also co-founded Medeor Therapeutics.

Personal life

His first wife is feminist economist Myra Strober, who decided to keep the Strober last name after she remarried.

References

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