Kurt Hirschhorn (1926 –2022)

Kurt Hirschhorn, M.D., died peacefully on November 22, 2022, after a short illness. He is survived by his wife, Rochelle Hirschhorn, and son, Joel, both human geneticists; his two daughters, Melanie (a former attorney and now writing coach) and Lisa (a physician-scientist working on HIV and global health); and seven grandchildren. Kurt was a leader in medical genetics as the specialty was first developed in the late 1950s. He was a productive physician-scientist, advancing a critical immunological assay, the mixed lymphocyte culture, and cytogenetics early in its development, leading to his description of the Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome.
Source: The American Journal of Human Genetics - Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Tags: Obituary Source Type: research