Oral history interview with Dennis A. Carson 2006 March 12

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Carson, Dennis A.,. Oral history interview with Dennis A. Carson 2006 March 12

Oral history interview with Dennis A. Carson 2006 March 12

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Dennis A. Carson attended Stuyvesant High School, a well-known school with a science-based curriculum. Upon graduating in 1962, he decided to matriculate at Haverford College, hoping to balance his science background with a degree in the liberal arts. He earned a B.A. in history and returned to New York City to attend Columbia University's medical school, where he worked in immunologist Elliott F. Osserman's lab experimenting with tissue cultures. After earning his M.D., Carson worked at the National Institutes of Health under Henry Metzger radiolabeling immunoglobulins and assigning affinity labels. In 1974, Carson left to work in Jay Seegmiller's lab at the University of California, San Diego, researching ADA deficiency's effect on the immune system. As an assistant member of the Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, he spent his time developing, synthesizing, manufacturing, and running trials for Leustatin, a drug for hairy cell leukemia that was approved in 1993. While at Scripps, Carson co-founded Vical a biotech company that develops DNA vaccines. Over the next decade, he founded other drug-development companies such as Triangle Pharmaceuticals, Dynamax Inc., and Salmedix. When Jay Seegmiller retired from UCSD's Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging in 1990, Carson took his place as director splitting his time between research and fund-raising. He left in 2003 to head Moores UCSD Cancer Research Center, where he has two drugs in development

Sound recordings ; digital, mp3 fileTranscript : (42 leaves) ; 29 cm.

Chemical Heritage Foundation, Othmer Library of Chemical History