Lefkowtiz, Robert J., Papers, 1971-2007

Collection Number: MC.0039
Robert J. Lefkowitz Papers,

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Contains University Administrative records. These include records of the officers of the University, as defined in the Bylaws, the deans of schools and colleges, and departments, institutes, and other offices as designated by the President. For a period of twenty-five years from the origin of the material, permission in writing from the director of the office of record and the Medical Center Archivist is required for use. After twenty-five years, records that have been processed may be consulted with the permission of the Medical Center Archivist.

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Robert J. Lefkowitz papers, Duke University Medical Center Archives.

Acquisitions Information

Transfers from the Lefkowitz Lab: A2004-008; A2004-037; A2004-077; A2005-001; A2005-006; A2005-026; A2005-028; A2005-029; A2006-040; A2006-053; A2006-055; A2007-002; A2007-041; A2007-062; A2007-066; A2007-068; A2007-084; A2008-020; A2008-027; A2008-042; A2008-043; A2008-067; A2008-071; A2008-083; A2009-027; A2009-040; A2009-062; A2009-073; A2010-005; A2010-008; A2010-027; A2010-030; A2010-034; A2010-041; A2010-046; A2010-053; A2010-056; A2011-014; A2011-015; A2011-018; A2011-019; A2011-020; A2011-021; A2011-022; A2011-031; A2011-036; A2011-056; A2011-061; A2011-086; A2012-001; A2012-005; A2012-007; A2012-035; A2012-060; A2012-074; A2012-083; A2013-001

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Collections may contain Medical Center Administrative records. These include records of the officers of the University, as defined in the Bylaws, the deans of schools and colleges, and departments, institutes, and other offices as designated by the President. For a period of twenty-five years from the origin of the material, permission in writing from the director of the office of record and the Medical Center Archivist is required for use. After twenty-five years, records that have been processed may be consulted with the permission of the Medical Center Archivist.

Collection may contain Records of the Board of Trustees of the Duke University Medical Center. These include minutes and supporting documentation of the Board, its Executive Committee, and standing and ad hoc committees, and reports, studies, and the like presented solely to the Board. Records which have been existence for at least fifty years are available for scholarly research with the permission of the Medical Center Archivist. Access to records which have been in existence for less than fifty years shall be granted only by special permission, in writing, of the Medical Center Board of Trustees.

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• Duke University--Faculty.
• Duke University. Dept. of Biochemistry.
• Duke University. Medical Center.
• Duke University. School of Medicine.
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
• Lefkowitz, Robert J., 1943-
• Laboratory notebooks
• Laboratory notes

Robert J. Lefkowitz was born on April 15, 1943, in New York City. He attended Columbia College from which he received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1962. He graduated from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1966 (M.D.). After serving an internship and one year of general medical residency at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, he served as a Clinical and Research Associate with Drs. Jesse Roth and Ira Pastan at the National Institutes of Health from 1968 to 1970. From 1970 to 1973 he was at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, where he completed his medical residency and research and clinical training in cardiovascular disease. During this time, he continued his research in the laboratories of Dr. Edgar Haber and was a teaching fellow at Harvard Medical School. Upon completing this training in 1973, he was appointed associate professor of medicine and assistant professor of biochemistry at the Duke University Medical Center. In 1977 he was promoted to professor of medicine and in 1982 to James B. Duke Professor of Medicine. Lefkowitz has been an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute since 1976 and was an Established Investigator of the American Heart Association from 1973 to 1976.

Dr. Lefkowitz has received numerous awards and honors including Phi Beta Kappa (1962), Roche Prize for Excellence in Medical Studies (1964), Alpha Omega Alpha (1965), Janeway Prize (1966), Established Investigator of the American Heart Association (1973-1976), Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator (1976), Young Scientist Award of the Passano Foundation (1978), John J. Abel Award in Pharmacology of the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (1978), Young Investigator Award, American College of Clinical Pharmacology (1979), George W. Thorn Award for Scientific Excellence of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (1979), Ernst Oppenheimer Memorial Award of the Endocrine Society (1982), Gordon Wilson Medal (1982), American Clinical and Climatological Association (1983), Lita Annenberg Hazen Award for Excellence in Clinical Research (1985), Award for Outstanding Research of the International Society for Heart Research (1985), Goodman and Gilman Award of the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (1986), Harry B. van Dyke Award for Excellence in Medical Research from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University (1986), Steven C. Beering Award for Outstanding Achievement in Biomedical Science of the Indiana University School of Medicine (1986), North Carolina Award for Science (1987), National Academy of Sciences (1988), American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1988), Gairdner Foundation International Award (1988), Novo Nordisk Biotechnology Award (1990), Association of American Medical Colleges Biomedical Research Award (1990), American Heart Association Basic Research Prize (1990), Honorary Member Japanese Biochemical Society (1990), City of Medicine Award with Alfred Gilman and Phillip Leder, Durham, North Carolina (1991), Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Alumnus Award for Distinguished Achievements in Medicine (1992), Bristol-Myers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Cardiovascular Research (1992), The Giovanni Lorenzini Prize for Basic Biomedical Research (1992), Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Joseph Mather Smith Prize (1993), Institute of Medicine National Academy of Sciences (1994), The Endocrine Society Gerald D. Aurbach Lecture Award (1995), Bio/Technology Winter Symposia Feodor Lynen Award (1996), Ciba Award for Hypertension Research (1996), Glorney-Raisbeck Award in Cardiology, The New York Academy of Medicine (1997), NOVARTIS/DREW Award in Biomedical Research (2000), F.E. Shideman-Sterling Award, University of Minnesota (2000), The Louis and Arture Lucian Award for Research in Circulatory Disease (2001), Fred Conrad Koch Award, The Endocrine Society (2001), Jessie Stevenson Kovalenko Medal, The National Academy of Sciences (2001), Peter Harris Distinguished Scientist Award, International Society for Heart (2001), The Francis Gilman Blake Award, Association of American Physicians (2001), Appointed Fellowship in the International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences (2001), and Fifteenth Annual Pasarow Cardiovascular Research Award, The Robert J. and Claire Pasarow Foundation (2002) In 2007, he was the co-winner of America's top prize in medicine, the Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research.

Lefkowitz has served on the editorial boards of ten leading journals in the fields of biochemistry, pharmacology and clinical investigation and as the president of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians. Lefkowitz has published more than 700 articles, authored or co-authored three books including the seventh edition of the Principles of Biochemistry and given many named and honorary lectures throughout the country and abroad.

[From: http://lefkowitz-symposium.mc.duke.edu/symposium/biosketch.htm]

Organized into the following series: Original manuscripts, 1970-1987; A2004-008: Travel and Conferences, 1998-2002; A2004-037: Committees (Inactive), 1984-1999; A2004-077: Records, 1978-2003; A2005-001: Records, 1990-2003; A2005-006 and A2007-041: Collaboration Files records, 1993-2004; A2005-026: Former Employee Files, circa 1980-1998; A2005-028: Howard Hughes Medical Institute materials, 1976-2004; A2006-040: Grant Materials and Travel Records, 1976-2005; A2006-053: Lefkowitz Symposium, 2003; A2006-055: Lab Notebooks and Files, 2003; A2007-002: Committee Travel, 2005; A2007-041: Records, 1974-2006; A2008-020: Laboratory notebooks and AAP Treasurer Materials; A2008-027: Laboratory notebooks, files, data, and slides, 1983-2007; A2008-067: Laboratory Notebooks: Sudha Shenoy, 1999-2004; A2008-071: Laboratory notebooks: Allen Ament, Scott DeWire, Robert Grossman, Martin Opperman, Jacek Ostrowski, Keshava Rajagopal, Erin Whalen.