Citizenship United States Known for Cancer research | Name Emil Frei | |
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Born February 21, 1924
St. Louis, Missouri ( 1924-02-21 ) Institutions National Cancer Institute
M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Alma mater Colgate University
Yale School of Medicine Died 2013, Oak Park, Illinois, United States Awards Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award | ||
Education Yale School of Medicine | ||
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Emil "Tom" Frei III (February 21, 1924 – April 30, 2013) was an American physician and oncologist. He was the former director and former physician-in-chief of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts. He was also the Richard and Susan Smith Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
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- Early life and education
- Career
- Involvement in Cancer Cooperative Group Research
- Recognition
- Death
- References
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Early life and education
Frei was born in 1924 in St. Louis. His family owned the stained glass manufacturer Emil Frei & Associates. Frei completed an accelerated pre-med Colgate University in 1944 after only 2 years of study and his medical degree from Yale University in 1948.
Career
He interned at Firmin Desloge Hospital, now St. Louis University Hospital in St. Louis, MIssouri and served as a physician in the Korean War. He worked at the National Cancer Institute from 1955 to 1965 and the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center from 1965 to 1972; while at M.D. Anderson he was the founding director of the Department of Development Therapeutics, which evolved into the Clinical Research Center. He served as physician-in-chief at the Dana-Farber Institute from 1972 to 1991. He is best known for his work on the treatment of lymphomas and childhood and adult leukemia. His groundbreaking research into then-controversial combination chemotherapy earned him many awards.
He coauthored "Cancer Medicine" with Dr. James F. Holland.
Involvement in Cancer Cooperative Group Research
Frei was one of the founders of the Acute Leukemia Group B which later evolved into the Cancer and Leukemia Group B (CALGB). He served as the group chair for 16 years, from 1956 to 1963, and again from 1981 to 1990.
Recognition
In 1972 he received the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award from the Lasker Foundation "for his outstanding contribution in application of the concept of combination chemotherapy for lymphoma and acute adult leukemia." Other awards included the Jeffrey A. Gottlieb Memorial Award (1978); NIH Distinguished Alumni Award (1990); Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1999); Pollin Prize for Pediatric Research (2003); and AARC Lifetime Achievement Award (2004).
Death
Frei died at his home of Parkinson's Disease in Oak Park, Illinois on April 30, 2013. He was 89.