Peter Verveer Tishler July 18, — January 18, was a researcher in human genetics and orphan diseases , educator, and clinician especially in the areas of genetic diseases, including polycystic kidney disease , chronic obstructive pulmonary disease , Fabry disease , and the porphyrias.
Verveer, and grew up in New Jersey. He passed away January 18, , in Watertown, New York. Tishler attended public schools and Harvard College where he majored in biochemistry. He wrote his senior thesis on carboxypeptidase , in the lab of Dr.
Fu at the Jimmy Fund , graduating cum laude in Tishler attended Yale School of Medicine and graduated in William B. Castle , discoverer of intrinsic factor , introduced him to Sidney H. Ingbar with whom Tishler began work on the metabolic actions of thyroid hormone. Maxwell Finland contributed to Tishler's scientific and clinical work.
In the following years, he continued his basic laboratory work, but also was concerned with genetics and medicine in the terms of population and epidemiology. He was also involved in familial studies of hypertension at one of the first community health centers in the U.
Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. In other projects. Wikidata item. American historian. Biography [ edit ]. Selected publications [ edit ]. References [ edit ]. On June 17, , he married Elizabeth M. Verveer, who had been a student in his freshman chemistry laboratory at Tufts. The couple had two sons, Peter Verveer Tishler b.
