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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?
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Werner Adolf Martin Immerwahr |
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82 years old |
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Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland) |
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17 August, 2006 |
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Boston, Massachusetts |
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Poland
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His wife is Elizabeth Ingram
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Vernon Ingram Net Worth
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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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.
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.
In 1952, Ingram returned to England and started working at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, studying protein chemistry.
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.
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.
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."
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.
Ingram was Director of the Experimental Study Group, an alternative undergraduate education community at MIT, from 1989 to 1999.
He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2002.
PNAS 2004 101: 14326-14332
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