Murray Rabinowitz
The University of Chicago
December 24, 1927 - October 19, 1983
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Scientific Discipline: Medical Genetics, Hematology, and Oncology Membership Type:
Member
(elected 1983)
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Murray Rabinowitz studied cardiac hypertrophy, a condition where the heart muscle thickens as it adapts to increased pressure and greater workload. This thickening decreases the heart’s ability to contract efficiently, and it can lead to sickness and death. Rabinowitz’s work provided a new level of detail about the underlying physical, molecular, and gene expression changes that might be targeted to mitigate these harmful effects.
Rabinowitz earned his undergraduate and medical degrees at New York University. He completed medical residencies at Montefiore Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, and a medical fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Following his postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Wisconsin, Rabinowitz moved to the Rockefeller University, then settled at the University of Chicago, where he remained a faculty member for the rest of his career.
In addition to his election to the National Academy of Science in 1983, Rabinowitz received the American Heart Association’s Research Achievement Award, posthumously, later that year.
Photograph of Murray Rabinowitz courtesy the Chicago Maroon.
