Mary Bernheim

Mary Bernheim

Mary Bernheim (maiden name Hare) was a British biochemist (born 1902) who obtained her doctorate at Cambridge University. While a graduate student, she discovered the enzyme tyramine oxidase that was later renamed monoamine oxidase (MAO).[1][2]

She became a member of the original faculty of Duke Medical School in 1930 and was promoted to full professor in 1962 and authored over sixty papers. She died in 1997.

References

  1. ^ Hare ML (1928). "Tyramine oxidase: A new enzyme system in liver". Biochem. J. 22 (4): 968–79. PMC 1252213. PMID 16744124. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=1252213. 
  2. ^ Slotkin TA (1999). "Mary Bernheim and the discovery of monoamine oxidase". Brain Res. Bull. 50 (5-6): 373. doi:10.1016/S0361-9230(99)00110-0. PMID 10643441. 

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