Victor Assad Najjar

Victor Assad Najjar (1914-2002) is Lebanese-born American pediatrician and microbiologist, he was known for Crigler–Najjar syndrome.[2]

Victor Assad Najjar
Born(1914-04-15)April 15, 1914
Beirut
Died30 November 2002 (2002-12-01) (aged 88)[1]
Nashville, Tennessee
Known forCrigler–Najjar syndrome

Life

He was born in 15 April 1914 in Beirut. He studied medicine at the American University in Beirut, graduating in 1935. Three years later he came to the USA and trained in pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he held a faculty appointment as pediatrician from 1949 to 1957. For the next ten years he was professor and chairman of the department of microbiology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee.[2]

In 1968 he became professor of molecular biology at the Massachusetts Division of the American Cancer Society, and chief of the division of protein chemistry at Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts. He was American Cancer Society Research Professor of Molecular Biology and Microbiology at Tufts University School of Medicine, 1978–1984.[2]

Najjar died on 30 November 2002 in Nashville, Tennessee.[3]

References
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary
  2. "Whonamedit - dictionary of medical eponyms". Retrieved 3 March 2017.
  3. VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER'S WEEKLY NEWSPAPER-Najjar, former chair of Microbiology, dies Nov. 30
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