| LC control no. | n 90604642 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Kipnis, David M., 1927-2014 |
| Variant(s) | Kipnis, David Morris, 1927-2014 |
| Birth date | 1927-05-23 |
| Death date | 2014-02-05 |
| Place of birth | Baltimore (Md.) |
| Place of death | Clayton (Mo.) |
| Field of activity | Diabetes Endocrinology |
| Affiliation | Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.). Medical School |
| Profession or occupation | Physicians Scientists |
| Found in | LC data base, 1-23-90 (hdg.: Kipnis, David M., 1927- ; usage: David M. Kipnis) Metabolic effects of gonadal hormones and contraceptive steroids, 1969: title page (edited by Hilton A. Salhanick, David M. Kipnis, Raymond L. Vande Wiele) STL Jewish Light, via WWW, May 12, 2020 (Dr. David Kipnis, widely praised as a physician scientist and for his leadership at the Washington University Medical School, died Wednesday, February. 5, 2014, at his home in Clayton; David Morris Kipnis was born in 1927 in Baltimore to European immigrants Rubin Kipnis and Anna Meisen Kipnis; he entered medical school at the University of Maryland and graduated in 1950; Dr. Kipnis joined the staff of the Washington University School of Medicine and for 20 years headed the school's largest department, internal medicine; he was an accomplished researcher and was known for his discoveries regarding metabolism; one of his discoveries, dealing with the incretin effect, led to the development of a new class of drugs used to treat people with diabetes) Washington University School of Medicine in Saint Louis, Becker Archives Database, via WWW, May 12, 2020 (Collection FC158 - David M. Kipnis Oral History; Kipnis, David M. (1927-2014); David M. Kipnis earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Johns Hopkins and, in 1950, a medical degree from the University of Maryland; he completed an internship at Johns Hopkins, a residency at Duke, and served as chief resident at the University of Maryland before coming to Washington University as an American College of Physicians research fellow; Kipnis came to Washington University in 1955 as a research fellow in the laboratory of Nobel laureates Carl F. Cori, MD, and Gerty T. Cori, MD; he directed the university's Clinical Research Center from 1960-1987, became a full professor of medicine in 1965, and in 1973, he was named the Adolphus Busch Professor and head of the Department of Medicine, a position he held until 1992; Kipnis also held appointments as professor of molecular biology and pharmacology at Washington University; Kipnis dedicated his research and clinical practice to diabetes and endocrinology, focusing on insulin's action; he helped delineate the mechanisms of sugar and amino acid transport, the regulation of insulin release within the pancreas and the molecular mechanisms underlying the metabolic effects of various hormones) ancestry.com, May 12, 2020 (David Morris Kipnis; born 23 May 1927 in Baltimore, Maryland; died 5 February 2014) |
| Associated language | eng |
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