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in 1928 and Ph.D. in Physiological Chemistry from Yale in 1931 for a dissertation entitled "Chemical and Physiological Investigations on Canine Gastric Secretion." He then joined of the Department of Pharmacology at the Yale School of Medicine as a postdoctoral fellow, where he and Louis S. Goodman,
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whose lymphosarcoma had not responded to radiation therapy. Although the intravenous nitrogen mustard regimen caused the tumor to completely recede, it regenerated within a month, and the patient died several months later. A larger clinical trial followed, and a paper was released after the studies
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a young M.D., became colleagues and close friends. In 1934, a year before joining the Yale faculty as an assistant professor, he married Mabel Schmidt. Their daughter, Joanna, was born in 1938, and their son,
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While teaching together, Goodman and Gilman perceived a need for an updated textbook in pharmacology that reflected advances in medicine and clarified the linkages between
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and kidney function. Gilman returned to Yale in 1973, where he remained as a lecturer until his death. He died at home in New Haven in 1984.
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discovered by Edward and Helen Krumbhaar during World War I, Gilman and Goodman conducted trials on mice to research on the compounds'
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Shortly after publishing the first edition of his textbook, Gilman became section chief of pharmacology at the US Army's
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were declassified in 1946. Gilman and Goodman are credited with the first use of intravenous chemotherapy treatment.
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Fenn JE; Udelsman R (March 2011). "First Use of Intravenous Chemotherapy Cancer Treatment: Rectifying the Record".
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in 1941, and Gilman served as an editor for its first six editions. Gilman served on the faculties of the
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in 1964 and chaired its Drug Efficacy Review Committee. He received an honorary doctorate from
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to investigate agents of chemical warfare, Gilman and Goodman were assigned a study of
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After leaving his Army post in 1946, Gilman joined the faculty of Columbia's
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Chairman of Pharmacology and Dean of the UT Southwestern Medical School
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Chemical and Physiological Investigations on Canine Gastric Secretion
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Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
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in 1956. During this period, Gilman shifted his focus to
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For his son, a pharmacologist and Nobel laureate, see
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Alfred Gilman, Sr.
Alfred G. Gilman

Bridgeport
Connecticut
New Haven, Connecticut
Yale University
The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics
Alfred G. Gilman
Yale School of Medicine
Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Chairman of Pharmacology and Dean of the UT Southwestern Medical School
Thesis
pharmacologist
chemotherapy
nitrogen mustard
Louis S. Goodman
The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics
Yale School of Medicine
Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
National Academy of Sciences
Bridgeport, Connecticut
Yale College
Alfred Goodman Gilman
Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology
pharmacodynamics
pharmacotherapy
Macmillan Publishing Company

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