Washington University School of Medicine - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

• Kenneth E. Pletcher, MD ’36; Surgeon General of the United States Air Force
• Ewald W. Busse, MD ’42; psychiatrist and dean of Duke University School of medicine
• Earl Sutherland, MD '42; biochemist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Edwin G. Krebs, MD ’43; biochemist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• David W. Talmage, MD ’44; immunologist
• Daniel Nathans, MD ’54; microbiologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and National Medal of Science
• James E. Darnell Jr., MD ’55; molecular biologist and winner of the National Medal of Science
• Thomas Hornbein, MD ’56; mountaineer and chairman of anesthesiology at University of Washington School of Medicine
• Clay Armstrong, MD ’60; physiologist and winner of the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research for describing K+ channels
• Floyd E. Bloom, MD ’60; chairman emeritus of neuropharmacology at Scripps Institute and editor-in-chief of Science
• Pedro Cuatrecasas, MD ’62; inventor of affinity chromatography and winner of the Wolf Prize in Medicine
• Herbert T. Abelson, MD ’66; discoverer of the Abelson murine leukemia virus
• C. Garrison Fathman, MD ’69; clinical immunologist
• Philip O. Alderson, MD ’70; dean of Saint Louis University School of Medicine
• Jonathan Mann, MD ’74; head of the World Health Organization global AIDS program
• Dan R. Littman, MD, PhD ’80; immunologist, HHMI investigator, member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine
• Eric D. Green, MD, PhD ’87, HS ’91; director of the NHGRI