Adel A. Yunis M.D.; FACP, is a 1954 medical graduate of the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. After two years of internship and residency at the American U Hospital in Beirut, he came to the ...lihat lebih banyakAdel A. Yunis M.D.; FACP, is a 1954 medical graduate of the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. After two years of internship and residency at the American U Hospital in Beirut, he came to the USA to receive training in the specialty of Hematology. From 1956 to 1959 he was resident, clinical and then research fellow in Hematology at Barnes Hospital, Washington U. School of Medicine, in St. Louis, Mo working with Drs. Carl V. Moore and William J. Harrington. From 1959 to 1961 he studied biochemistry with Drs. Edwin Krebs and Edmond Fischer at the University of Washington, Seattle. He then joined the faculty of the Dept. of Medicine at Washington U as instructor, then assistant professor. In 1964 he moved to the University of Miami, Miami Fl to direct the Division of Hematology, where he stayed for the remainder of his academic career. At the university of Miami Dr. Yunis held the following positions: Professor of Medicine, Biochem. and Mol. Biol. and Oncology, Director, Division of Hematology and the Center for Blood Diseases, Chief of Hematology at Jackson Memorial Hospital; Director of the Howard Hughes Laboratories for Hematological Research and Director of the General Clinical Research Center. Dr. Yunis was a Leukemia Society scholar, a recipient of a Research Career Development Award from the National Institute of Health and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He was an active member of many societies including; Assoc. of American Physicians; American society for Clinical I investigation: American Society of Biochem. and Mol. Biol., Am Soc. of Hematology and on the editorial board of an number of journals including J. of Lab. And Clin. Med., J. of Cell Cloning and BLOOD. He served on a number of committees of the Nat. Inst. of Health. He is cited in Marquis' Who's Who - 38th edition 1974-1975.lihat lebih sedikit