Fridolin Sulser Biographical File
Abstract
Includes newspaper article.
Dates
- Creation: 1926-2016
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Biographical / Historical
He was born in Grabs, Switzerland and grew up in the town of Maienfeld. He graduated from the Humanistische Gymnasium in Chur in 1947 and left to attend respectively school at the University of Basel (pre-clinical) and the University of Zurich (clinical), graduating from the latter with an M.D. in 1955.
He moved with his family to the United States in the fall of 1958, having obtained a post-doctoral fellowship in neuropsychopharmacology at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, M.D, funded by Swiss Academy. At the time he established his long-standing interest in brain research. At the NIH, he started working in the laboratory of Bernard Brodie, focusing on the mechanism of action of imipramine.
In 1965 he joined the Vanderbilt University Medical School Faculty as professor and Director of the Pharmacology Research Center. He gained recognition for an early hypothesis of the mechanism of action of antidepressant drugs, suggesting in 1975, together with Jerzy Vetulani, that downregulation of beta-adrenergic receptors is responsible for their effects. He was made Professor Emeritus of the University in 2000.
Full Extent
0.01 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
- Title
- Fridolin Sulser Biographical File
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- History of Medicine Collections Staff
- Date
- 2024-04-30
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the VUMC Historical Images and Biographies Repository
Eskind Biomedical Library
2209 Garland Ave.
Nashville TN 37232
historyofmedicine@vanderbilt.edu
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