Samuel Strober

{{short description|American physician}}

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Samuel Strober ({{Birth date|1940|5|8}}-{{death date and age|2022|02|11|1940|5|8}}{{Cite web|url=http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2022/03/samuel-strober-obituary.html|title=Samuel Strober, pioneering transplantation immunologist, dies at 81|first=Bruce|last=Goldman|website=Stanford Medicine News Center}}) was a biomedical researcher and inventor best known for his work on the elimination of the need for lifelong immune suppressive drugs in organ transplant patients.{{Cite web|url=https://www.myast.org/memoriam-sam-strober-md|title=In Memoriam: Sam Strober, MD|date=February 22, 2022|website=American Society of Transplantation|access-date=July 6, 2022|archive-date=April 19, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220419161813/https://www.myast.org/memoriam-sam-strober-md|url-status=live}}

Strober was born in Brooklyn, New York, on May 8, 1940, and received his bachelor's degree from Columbia College in 1961,{{Cite web |date=2022-06-17 |title=Obituaries |url=https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/issue/springsummer-2022/article/obituaries |access-date=2022-06-23 |website=Columbia College Today |language=en |archive-date=2022-06-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220623110336/https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/issue/springsummer-2022/article/obituaries |url-status=live }} and his MD from the Harvard Medical Schoolhms.harvard.edu/ in 1966. He also studied at Massachusetts General{{Cite web|url=https://www.massgeneral.org/|title=Massachusetts General Hospital|website=Massachusetts General Hospital|access-date=2022-02-12|archive-date=2022-02-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220209180515/https://www.massgeneral.org/|url-status=live}} and Stanford University Hospitals{{cite web|url=https://stanfordhealthcare.org/|title=Stanford Health Care (SHC) – (formerly Stanford Hospital & Clinics)|publisher=}} and the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology{{Cite web|url=http://www.path.ox.ac.uk/|title=Sir William Dunn School of Pathology ||website=www.path.ox.ac.uk|access-date=2017-03-06|archive-date=2017-02-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170226093104/http://www.path.ox.ac.uk/|url-status=live}} at Oxford University.

He was chief of the Division of Immunology and Rheumatology{{cite web|url=http://med.stanford.edu/immunology/research.html|title=Research - Immunology & Rheumatology - Stanford Medicine|publisher=|access-date=2016-06-22|archive-date=2016-04-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160421085931/http://med.stanford.edu/immunology/research.html|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2021/12/james-fries-obituary.html|title=Stanford Medicine professor James Fries, proponent of healthy aging, dies at 83|author=Bruce Goldman|website=Stanford Medicine News Center|access-date=2022-07-06|archive-date=2021-12-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211230203146/https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2021/12/james-fries-obituary.html|url-status=live}} at the Stanford University School of Medicine (1979–1997); a co-founder of a biotechnology company, Dendreon, that developed the first FDA approved cancer vaccination; President of the Clinical Immunology Society (1996);{{cite web|url=https://www.clinimmsoc.org/|title=Clinical Immunology Society|publisher=|access-date=2016-06-22|archive-date=2016-06-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160629164853/http://www.clinimmsoc.org/|url-status=live}} and chairman of the Board of Directors of the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology.{{Cite web|url=https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/27812173/liai-board-of-directors-samuel-strober-md-board-la-jolla-institute-|title=LIAI Board of Directors Samuel Strober, MD Board - La Jolla Institute ...|website=yumpu.com|access-date=2022-02-12|archive-date=2022-02-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220212165909/https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/27812173/liai-board-of-directors-samuel-strober-md-board-la-jolla-institute-|url-status=live}}{{Cite web |url=http://livesite.liai.org/pages/board-of-directors|title=board of directors |archive-date=2007-12-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071229193033/http://livesite.liai.org/pages/board-of-directors |url-status=dead |website=La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.lji.org/about-us/our-team/board-of-directors/|title=Board of Directors|website=La Jolla Institute for Immunology|access-date=2022-02-12|archive-date=2022-02-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220212163331/https://www.lji.org/about-us/our-team/board-of-directors/|url-status=live}} He also co-founded Medeor Therapeutics.{{cite web | url = https://medeortx.com/about-us/scientific-founders.php | title = Scientific Founders | website = Medeor Therapeutics | access-date = 2022-07-06 | archive-date = 2022-03-01 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220301033550/https://medeortx.com/about-us/scientific-founders.php | url-status = live }}