Guthrie, Robert, 1916-

Dr. Robert Guthrie was widely recognized for the development of simple screening tests that detect PKU (phenylketonuria) (1961) and other inherited metabolic diseases in newborn infants. Robert Guthrie was born 1916 in Marionville, Missouri, earned his B.A. in Premedical Studies, B.S. in Medical Science, and B.M. in Medicine from the University of Minnesota (1941-1944), his M.S. in Bacteriology and Biochemistry from the University of Maine (1942), and his M.D. and Ph.D. in Bacteriology and Biochemistry from the University of Minnesota (1945, 1946). Dr.Guthrie was professor of microbiology (1970-1974) and professor of pediatrics and microbiology (1974-1986) at the State University of New York at Buffalo where he was research professor of pediatrics from 1971-1974. Previously, Dr. Guthrie was research associate professor of pediatrics at the State University of New York at Buffalo (1958-1971), principal cancer research scientist at Roswell Park Memorial Institute (1954-1958), assistant in the Department of Chemotherapy at the Sloan-Kettering Institute (1951-1954), professor and chairman of the Department of Bacteriology and Immunology at the University of Kansas (1949-1950), and research scientist in the Division of Experimental Biology and Medicine at the National Institutes of Health.