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About Dr. Roscoe Brady
Dr. Roscoe O. Brady was born in Philadelphia in 1923, attended Pennsylvania
State University, and received his medical degree from Harvard Medical
School in 1947. Before joining the National Institutes of Health in 1954,
he served in the U.S. Naval Medical Corps at the National Naval Medical
School as Officer-in-Charge, Department of Chemistry. Over his career,
Dr. Brady has been a member of many professional societies, including
the National Academy of Sciences, and has served on the editorial board
or advisory board for many journals and organizations. He also is an adjunct
Professor at Georgetown School of Medicine. Some of the innumerable awards
Dr. Brady has won include the Lasker Foundation Clinical Medical Research
Award, and the Kovalenko Medal from the National Academy of Sciences.
At present, Dr. Brady is chief of the Developmental and Metabolic Neurology
Branch of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
Dr. Brady's accomplishments include the identification of the metabolic
defects in hereditary lipid storage disorders including Gaucher disease,
Niemann-Pick disease, Fabry disease, and Tay-Sachs disease. He has applied
this knowledge in developing diagnostic tests, carrier identification
procedures, and the prenatal detection
of such conditions. His current research interests include the development
of enzyme replacement therapy for metabolic
storage disorders other than Gaucher disease, as well as gene therapy
for these conditions.
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