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Michael R. Rosen ’60

Dr. Michael R. Rosen ’60, the Gustavus A. Pfeiffer Professor of Pharmacology, Professor of Pediatrics, and Director of the Center for Molecular Therapeutics at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University in New York, has been elected professor honoris causa of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the leading scientific body of the country. Founded in 1724, it is one of the oldest such organizations in the world and awards its degrees to only the most eminent foreign scientists. He has focused his research interests on the prevention and treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. In the 1970s, the National Institutes of Health and the Soviet Ministry of Health started joint research in sudden cardiac death, and by the late 1980s he was spending a significant portion of his time working with Russian scientists in Moscow and New York. His work is credited with increasing our understanding of how best to provide therapy for hearts that have developed arrhythmias.
Dr. Michael R. Rosen ’60, the Gustavus A. Pfeiffer Professor of Pharmacology, Professor of Pediatrics, and Director of the Center for Molecular Therapeutics at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University in New York, has been elected professor honoris causa of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the leading scientific body of the country. Founded in 1724, it is one of the oldest such organizations in the world and awards its degrees to only the most eminent foreign scientists. He has focused his research interests on the prevention and treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. In the 1970s, the National Institutes of Health and the Soviet Ministry of Health started joint research in sudden cardiac death, and by the late 1980s he was spending a significant portion of his time working with Russian scientists in Moscow and New York. His work is credited with increasing our understanding of how best to provide therapy for hearts that have developed arrhythmias.