Harry Schachter

Harry Schachter

At the University of Toronto, Schachter completed his BA in Physiology and Biochemistry in 1955, his MD in 1959, and his PhD in Biochemistry (Gordon Dixon, supervisor) in 1964. After completing his PhD, he was appointed an assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry. He did his post-doctoral work in glycobiology with Saul Roseman at Johns Hopkins University from 1966 to 1968. He returned to the University of Toronto in 1968, where he established his laboratory in the Department of Biochemistry.

In 1976, Schachter took a position in the Division of Biochemistry Research at the

Schachter served as post-doctoral supervisor and mentor to scientists in his laboratory, and collaborated with these and other scientists in Canada, Europe, Japan, Australia and the United States. Collaborators included David Williams, Inka Brockhausen, Clifford Lingwood, Mohan Sarkar, Pamela Stanley, Noam Harpaz, Louis Siminovitch, Jeremy Carver, Hudson Freeze, Jaak Jaeken, Jamey Marth, Hans Vliegenthart, Vernon Reinhold, Reinhart Reithmeier, Kevin Campbell, Gabrielle Boulianne, Paul Gleeson, Richard Simpson, Jenny Tan, Andrew Spence, Folkert Reck, Jiri Vajsar, Saroja Narasimhan, Bob (RK) Murray, GD Longmore, Jenny Chan, and Brad Bendiak.

Death

Schachter died in Toronto on 17 April 2024, at the age of 91.^[11]

Awards and honors

• 2011:
  Austrian Cross of Honour
  for Science and Art First Class
• 2010: Rosalind Kornfeld Award for Lifetime Achievement in Glycobiology.
• 2000: Elected to the Johns Hopkins University Society of Scholars, Baltimore MD
• 1998: Karl Meyer Award of the Society for Glycobiology.
• 1998: Honorary degree,
  Universität der Bodenkultur
  (BOKU), Vienna, Austria.
• 1989,1990,1992: visiting professor,
  Universitat der Bodenkultur
  , Vienna, Austria.
• 1995: Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
• 1990s: member and chair of the Medical Review Panel of the
  Gairdner Foundation International Awards
• 1989: Sandoz Lecture, Clinical Research Society of Toronto.
• 1989: visiting professor, Donders Chair,
  University of Utrecht
  , Netherlands.
• 1985: Boehringer Mannheim Prize in Biochemistry
• 1981: Terry Fox Special Initiatives Program research award for cancer research
• 1964: Starr Medal (University of Toronto, Postgraduate Research)
• 1959: Cody Silver Medal (University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine)
• 1957: Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society

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