Hollinshead, Ariel (1929–)
Hollinshead, Ariel (1929–)
American cancer researcher and pharmacologist. Born Ariel Cahill, Aug 24, 1929, in Pennsylvania; mother was a Barnard College valedictorian and president; father was a Quaker with an engineering degree from Lehigh; Ohio University, AB, 1951; George Washington University, MA, 1955, PhD in pharmacology, 1957; m. Montgomery Hollinshead (lawyer), 1958; children: 2.
The 1st to identify human and animal antigens in cancerous tumors, worked with Dr. Joseph Melnick as a Baylor University Medical Center assistant virology and epidemiology professor (1958–59); at George Washington University, served as assistant pharmacology professor (1959–61) and associate pharmacology professor (1961–73); became medical professor at George Washington Medical Center (1974); created the Laboratory for Virus and Cancer Research, serving as head, then director, then president (1964–89). Honors include the Star of Europe Medal (1980), Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine's Distinguished Science Award (1985) and Italy's Scholar Speciale Medicina's Silver Medal (1990).