Martha Vaughan

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Martha Vaughan
National Heart Lung and Blood Institute
Notable studentsFerid Murad

Martha Vaughan (4 August 1926 – 13 September 2018)

protein synthesis in the Building 3 laboratory of biochemist and public scientist Christian B. Anfinsen, Ph.D., who went on to share the 1972 Nobel Prize in Chemistry[2][3]

Among scientists mentored by Vaughan was 1998

Nobel Laureate Ferid Murad, who in the late 1960s worked as a researcher studying hormone regulation in her NIH laboratory. “She too was an excellent mentor...she gave me considerable freedom,” he said in his Nobel lecture.[4][5]

For more than 6 decades at the NIH, Vaughan was active in professional biochemistry societies and other scientific organizations, serving on various editorial and advisory boards. Over the years, she also held a number of research administrative appointments at the NIH related to

cell metabolism
and metabolic regulation.

Education

In 1944, Vaughan, a

Yale–New Haven Hospital
.

In 1949, while at Yale, Vaughan chaired the Yale School of Medicine chapter of the Association of Internes and Medical Students (AIMS), a national, young doctors' organization founded in 1941.[7] The Yale chapter was known as the Harvey Cushing Chapter. AIMS was concerned the rights of medical students, the draft, vivisection, universal health insurance, racial equality in medical education, and other progressive issues of the time. The organization disbanded in the early 1950s.

Honors and awards

In 1985, Vaughan was elected to

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (then the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.[9] Three Nobel Prize Winners participated in a 2001 symposium organized to honor her.[10][11]

Personal life

Vaughan was married to fellow NIH scientist Jack Orloff, M.D., a renal specialist who served as NHLBI scientific director from 1974-1988.

National Heart Lung and Blood Institute continues to offer an annual science award after Dr. Orloff, who died in 1988.[14]
Both scientists were recruited to the NIH in the early 1950s, Orloff first in 1950 and Vaughan in 1952.

Further reading

References

  1. ^ Martha Vaughan
  2. ^ McManus, Rich (Summer 2001). "Era of Scientific Distinction Ends for Bldg. 3" (PDF). The Newsletter of the NIH Alumni Association. Vol. 13, no. 2. National Institutes of Health. Retrieved 20 October 2016.
  3. ^ McManus, Rich (May 1, 2001). "Tradition Exported to Stokes Labs:Era of Scientific Distinction Ends for Bldg. 3". Vol. LIII, no. 9. The NIH Record. National Institutes of Health. Retrieved 20 October 2016.
  4. ^ Murad, Ferid. "Discovery of Some of the Biological Effects of Nitric Oxide and its Role in Cell Signaling" (PDF). Nobelprize.org. Retrieved 20 October 2016.
  5. ^ "Ferid Murad - Biographical". www.nobelprize.org. Retrieved 20 October 2016.
  6. ^ 1940 Census
  7. ^ Yale University Library
  8. ^ "Academy of Arts & Sciences Website Search". www.amacad.org. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
  9. ^ "PHS Officers, CSC Employees at NIH are Honored During Awards Ceremony" (PDF). Vol. XXVI, no. 11. The NIH Record. The National Institutes of Health. May 21, 1974. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
  10. ^ "Three Nobel Prize Winners To Lecture at Symposium Honoring Vaughan". nihrecord.nih.gov. Vol. LIII, no. 4. The NIH Record. The National Institutes of Health. February 20, 2001. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
  11. ^ "NIH VideoCast - Insights Into Signal Transduction: A Symposium in Honor of Martha Vaughan (Day 2)". videocast.nih.gov. National Institutes of Health. 9 March 2001. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
  12. ^ "NIH Record-3/19/2002--NIH Offered Haven from Antinepotism Rules".
  13. ^ "Why NIH?::Married Couples in Science at NIH".
  14. ^ "NHLBI Announces the Recipients of 2016 Orloff Science Awards - NHLBI, NIH". 29 January 2016.
  15. ^ "Mendel, Lafayette B. - Yale University: School of Medicine, Department of Physiological Chemistry".
  16. ^ ""On Equal Terms": Educating Women at the University of Chicago >".
  17. ^ "Labs" (PDF).

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