Baruj benacerraf biography sample

Baruj Benacerraf was born on October 29, 1920, in Caracas, Venezuela. Benacerraf enrolled in the undergraduate studies at Columbia University, obtaining a Bachelor of Science Degree in 1942.

Following Columbia, he enrolled in the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond.

Baruj Benacerraf (pronounced bar-OOK ben-ah-seh-RAHF) was born Oct. 29, , in Caracas, Venezuela.

A year later, he was drafted into the U.S. Army. For a year in 1945, Benacerraf interned at Queens General Hospital in New York. In 1946, he was commissioned First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Medical Corps and sent to Germany; he was discharged in 1947.

After the war, he was granted a Fellowship at the Neurological Institute of Columbia University School of Physicians and Surgeons.

From 1950 to 1956, Benacerraf moved with his family to Paris to take a position in Bernard Halpern's laboratory at the Broussais Hospital. In 1956, he returned to the United States as Assistant Professor of Pathology at New York University School of Medicine.

By 1961, Benacerraf had advanced to Professor of Patholog