Marc Straus
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Marc Joshua Straus June 2, 1943 New York City |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Art Gallery Owner |
Marc Straus is an art gallery owner, poet and a retired oncologist. In the late 1970s, he was implicated in a high-profile case of scientific misconduct.
Straus is the son of Samuel Straus (1914–1985) an Ashkenazi Jewish Polish immigrant from Sambir (now in the Ukraine), who came to New York impoverished at age 15. Samuel's mother had died when he was three months old. Marc's mother, Dora Straus (1918–2008) was a daughter of immigrants from Austro-Hungary. Her father worked as a tailor in Brooklyn, NY. In 1943 Samuel opened, Roman Cotton Goods, a wholesale textile store, in Manhattan's Lower Eastside.
In 1946, the family moved to West Hempstead, Long Island where he attended public school. At age 10 he a began commuting to Yeshiva Central Queens, an orthodox Jewish school, and at the age of 14 to Yeshiva of Flatbush in Brooklyn. In his first day of High School, he met Livia Selmanowitz, granddaughter of a scholar rabbi, who headed a Ger Hassidic group in Brooklyn. In their senior year they began dating and were married in 1964.
Straus earned a BA in history in 1964 from Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA, and a MD in 1968 from SUNY Downstate Medical Center. He was a medical intern (1968–69) at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, NY and 1969 – 71), was a Research Fellow in Drug Research and Development at the National Cancer Institute, working on cancer drug studies in mice which established optimal ways of combining different drugs, with a number of publications in cancer research journals.
From 1971–72 he was a medical resident at Barnes Hospital, Washington University, St. Louis. Here he devised a combination chemotherapy trial for patients with Small Cell lung cancer, an approach that became the basis for many other trials. In 1972–74, he was a clinical oncology fellow at the National Cancer Institute and Head of its Laboratory of Cell Kinetics from which he published numerous papers on the growth and treatment of human cancers. In 1971, he edited the first of three textbooks on lung cancer which for many years were the standard texts.
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