Bert L. Vallee, 1919- , BS, 1938, University of Bern; MD, 1943, New York University, was appointed to the staff at Harvard Medical School in 1945 to study the importance of trace metals in biological systems; he became Director of the Biophysics Research Laboratory of Harvard Medical School in the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1954, and was later Edgar M. Bronfman Distinguished Senior Professor and Director of the Harvard Medical School Center for Biomedical and Biophysical Sciences and Medicine. Vallee's research included metallobiochemistry; mechanism of metalloenzyme action zinc biochemistry; organogenesis, with emphasis on angiogenesis; and the biochemistry, genetics, and pharmacology of the metabolism.
From the description of Papers, 1960s-1990s. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 81062895
