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John P. Blass is a physician, biochemist and neurochemist who was born on February 21, 1937 to Gustaf Blass and Jolan Wirth Blass in Vienna, Austria. Both his parents were physicians; his father was a prominent Viennese radiologist and his mother, a student of Sigmund Freud among others, was a psychoanalyst originally from Budapest. In his infancy, John, his older sister Ingeborg and his mother fled Austria for the United States to join Gustaf who had preceded them and established a medical practice in Oklahoma, where they settled for several years. The family then moved to Stamford, Connecticut. Both parents practiced psychiatry, Gustaf in a private sanitarium in Stamford and Jolan as a child psychiatrist in New York City and Connecticut. Blass' most prominent professional achievements are in the area of aging and Alzheimer's disease, in particular relating to brain metabolism. He holds patents based on decades of scientific research, including a neutraceutical "metabolic enhancer" which has been under study in a large-scale, controlled, "multicenter" clinical trial. Preliminary results have led to its being made available commercially. He has written and contributed to a number of books, both professionally (assorted volumes on Alzheimer's disease and a textbook on pharmacology) and for pleasure. Currently he is developing a work on the historical statements of Jesus from a Jewish perspective. His personal interests include cooking, gardening and soil composition, history, news and politics, and ancient texts, particularly Roman and Jewish. His immediate family are his wife Birgit (Gitte) Blass, son Charles Blass and daughter Louise Blass. Charles and his wife Agnes Blass have a daughter, Isabel Blass. ==Education and Institutional Positions== Dr. Blass' studies brought him to Harvard College (summa cum laude, class of 1958, Harvard Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa (senior sixteen), Sigma Xi, Biochemical Sciences major); the University of London where as a Marshall Scholar he earned his PhD in Biochemistry (1960) under thesis professor and pioneer of modern neurochemistry Henry McIlwain; and to Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons where Blass earned his medical degree (Alpha Omega Alpha, class of 1965). During this time, he took a year off to do research as an American Cancer Society fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Heinrich Waelsch, another founding father of neurochemistry. John's internship and residency was in internal medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston (1965–67). Then he spent three years (1967-1970) in the National Heart Institute at the National Institute of Health (NIH)(now the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). From 1970-1978 he was an Assistant and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Biochemistry at UCLA Medical School's Neuropsychiatric Institute. Since then he has been Winifred Masterson Burke Professor of Neurology and Medicine at Weill Medical College of Cornell University. He established and directed the Dementia Research Service, a combined research and clinical unit at a Cornell affiliated institution, the Burke Medical Research Institute. He was also appointed in the field of Neurosciences. In 2005, he became Emeritus Professor at Cornell, and fully retired as of 2007. In September 2007, the New York Academy of Sciences held a conference in honor of Dr. Blass, 'Mitochondria and Oxidative Stress in Neurodegenerative Disorders', which was also a satellite meeting of the International Society of Neurochemistry.〔http://www.nyas.org/Events/Detail.aspx?cid=8a0f4c49-b1c2-46d1-bc05-68984e789335 http://www.nyas.org/Publications/EBriefings/Detail.aspx?cid=43761f39-1397-4cfb-b1ef-43f864ac5fbb〕 Also in 2007 the scientific journal Neurochemical Research published a special issue (Volume 32, Numbers 4-5, 775-781, ) dedicated to Dr. Blass. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Paul Blass」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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