Ernst J. Eichwald

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1913 – 2007

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Who was Ernst J. Eichwald?

Professor Eichwald was born Dec. 13, 1913, in Hanover, Germany. He received his medical degrees in Freiburg, Germany, in 1938, and from the University of Utah School of Medicine in 1953. He moved to the U S. A. in 1938. Dr.

Eichwald completed internships and pathology training in Dayton, Ohio, and at the Children¹s Hospital in Boston. He subsequently worked as an Assistant in Pathology at Harvard Medical School, followed by service in the U.S. Army from 1944-46 as Head of Laboratory Service at the 120th General Hospital, New Guinea, Manila, Philippines, and Kyoto, Japan. He returned to Children¹s Hospital as Assistant Pathologist in 1946. In 1948 Dr. Eichwald moved to Salt Lake City to assume a faculty position as an Assistant and then Associate Professor of Pathology at the University of Utah. He was recruited to Montana Deaconess Hospital in Great Falls, Montana in 1953 under an arrangement that provided resources to support his research program. He established the Laboratory for Experimental Medicine in 1956 that evolved into the McLaughlin Research Institute in Great Falls, an independent biomedical research institute that continues to thrive. Ernst was a Professor of Microbiology at Montana State University, Bozeman, and Chairman of the Montana Chapter of the American Cancer Society. In 1967 he returned to Salt Lake City as Professor of Pathology and Surgery, and chaired the Pathology Department until his partial retirement in 1979. He continued laboratory work until 2003.

Ernst Eichwald was a pioneer of tissue transplantation. He described the male-specific antigen; organized the first International Transplantation Conference, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, in Harriman, N.Y., in 1953; founded and edited the journal Transplantation for 30 years; and chaired the Transplantation Committee of the National Academy of Sciences from 1955 to 1967. His research played an important role in the development of successful protocols for organ transplantation in humans.

Professor Eichwald devoted much of his spare time to playing chamber music in both Salt Lake City and Great Falls, Mont., and co-founded the Great Falls Symphony. With passion for science, music, and life, he was also a wonderful teacher and mentor whose wisdom and enthusiasm will carry on in the many lives he has influenced

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Born
1913
Also known as
  • Ernst J Eichwald
Died
Dec 23, 2007
Salt Lake City

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on July 23, 2013

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