Lazarow, Arnold, 1916-

Arnold Lazarow was born in Detroit in 1916. He received all of his post-secondary education at the University of Chicago, including an M.D. and a Ph. D. in anatomy. He served on the faculty of Western Reserve University Medical School and joined the Department of Anatomy of the University of Minnesota Medical School as professor and head of the department in 1954.

He was a pioneer in the quest for a surgical cure for diabetes, and his major research contributions were in the fields of histochemistry, cytochemistry, experimental diabetes and information retrieval. At the time of his death he had achieved success in curing diabetes in highly inbred rats through transplantation of pancreatic islet cells. Most summers Lazarow did much of his basic diabetes research at the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts. He received the Banting Medal in 1973, the highest award of the American Diabetes Association.

He died in 1975 after suffering a heart attack.

From the guide to the Arnold Lazarow Papers, 1954?-1975, (University of Minnesota Libraries. University Archives [uarc])