Here's a cliche: Dermatology, St Louis, and Arthur Eisen. How long have you been in St Louis?
Since 1967. As Chief of Dermatology for 33 years.
And before St Louis?
I spent 2 years in the Dermatology Branch at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under Eugene Van Scott, MD. I then did residency training at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Boston, and subsequently was a fellow in the laboratory of Jerry Gross, MD, at the MGH. At that time, Dr Gross had just discovered vertebrate collagenase in the tadpole tailfin.
Was your relationship (with Gross) deliberate or serendipitous?
I heard Dr Gross give a lecture to the dermatology department at MGH and became fascinated. I was interested to determine the site of collagenase production in the tadpole tail fin and also to see if a similar enzyme was present in human skin.
How about your roots?
My parents were living in Buffalo, NY, visiting family in Toronto, Ontario, when I was born. I spent my formative years in Buffalo. My father was born in Haverhill, Mass, to parents from Austria. My mother . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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