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Vernon Ingram (Werner Adolf Martin Immerwahr) was born on 19 May, 1924 in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland), is a Vernon Martin Ingram. Discover Vernon Ingram's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 82 years old?

Popular As Werner Adolf Martin Immerwahr
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Age 82 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 19 May, 1924
Birthday 19 May
Birthplace Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland)
Date of death 17 August, 2006
Died Place Boston, Massachusetts
Nationality Poland

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1924

Vernon Martin Ingram, (May 19, 1924 – August 17, 2006) was a German–American professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Ingram was born Werner Adolf Martin Immerwahr in Breslau, Lower Silesia.

When he was 14, he and his family left Nazi Germany because of their opposition to Nazism (being Jewish) and settled in England.

He then Anglicised his name to Vernon Ingram.

During the Second World War, Ingram worked at a chemical factory producing drugs for the war effort and at night studied at Birkbeck College at the University of London.

1945

He received a bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1945 and a PhD in organic chemistry in 1949.

After receiving his doctorate, Ingram worked at postdoctoral appointments at the Rockefeller Institute and Yale University.

At Rockefeller, he worked with Moses Kunitz on crystallising proteins.

While at Yale, he studied peptide chemistry with Joseph Fruton.

1952

In 1952, Ingram returned to England and started working at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, studying protein chemistry.

1956

In 1956, Ingram, John A. Hunt, and Antony O. W. Stretton determined that the change in the haemoglobin molecule in sickle cell disease and trait was the substitution of the glutamic acid in position 6 of the β-chain of the normal protein by valine.

Ingram used electrophoresis and chromatography to show that the amino acid sequence of normal human and sickle cell anaemia haemoglobins differed due to a single substituted amino acid residue.

Much of this work was done with the support of Max Perutz and Francis Crick.

1958

Ingram joined the MIT faculty in 1958, intending to stay for only one year.

He found that he enjoyed it there so much that he stayed on.

While at MIT, Ingram collaborated with Paul Marks of Columbia University on haemoglobin research.

He was also interested in embryonic haemoglobin and how it differed from that of adults.

1967

Ingram won the William Allan Award from the American Society of Human Genetics in 1967.

This was the first time a researcher demonstrated that a single amino acid exchange in a protein can cause a disease or disorder.

As a result, Vernon Ingram is sometimes referred to as "The father of Molecular Medicine."

1980

By the 1980s, Ingram became interested in neuroscience and especially Alzheimer's disease.

His interest was sparked by the work his second wife, Elizabeth (Beth), was doing with intellectually disabled people in the Boston area.

She had heard that Down syndrome was a disease of the neurofilaments; this turned out not to be the cause, but it was noted that people with Down syndrome did develop Alzheimer's Disease by the time they were 40.

After retirement, Ingram continued his research, maintaining a small laboratory at MIT.

He and his wife, Beth, were housemasters of Ashdown House at MIT for 16 years.

Asteroid 6285 Ingram is named in their honour.

1989

Ingram was Director of the Experimental Study Group, an alternative undergraduate education community at MIT, from 1989 to 1999.

2002

He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2002.

2004

PNAS 2004 101: 14326-14332

2006

Ingram died in Boston, Massachusetts, on 17 August 2006 of injuries stemming from a fall.

Inaugural Article: Efficient reversal of Alzheimer's disease fibril formation and elimination of neurotoxicity by a small molecule

Barbara J. Blanchard, Albert Chen, Leslie M. Rozeboom, Kate A. Stafford, Peter Weigele, and Vernon M. Ingram