Clifford Grobstein

Who was Clifford Grobstein?

Clifford Grobstein was an American biologist, a cancer researcher, a member of the National Academies of Sciences. Grobstein was the chairman of the biology department and the dean of the school of medicine at the University of California at San Diego. He was also a member of the National Academy of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The New York Times said that Grobstein "made important contributions to the study of cancer and of developmental biology." He is also known and respected by his fellow scientists for raising and framing ethical questions dealing with applications of the experimental biology. The National Academies Press said he "was a leading American developmental biologist of the last half of the twentieth century".