| Administrative History | 'Dr. Candace B. Pert was awarded her Ph.D. in pharmacology, with distinction, in 1974, from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland. Previously, she had completed her undergraduate studies, in biology, cum laude, in 1970, from Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Dr. Pert conducted a National Institute of Health (NIH) Postdoctoral Fellowship with the Department of Pharmacology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine from 1974 - 1975.
After 1975, Dr. Pert held a variety of research positions with the National Institutes of Health, and until 1987, served as Chief of the Section on Brain Biochemistry of the Clinical Neuroscience Branch of the NIMH. She then founded and directed a private biotech laboratory. Dr. Pert currently holds a Research Professorship in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, DC.
Dr. Pert is an internationally recognized pharmacologist who has published over 250 scientific articles on peptides and their receptors and the role of these neuropeptides in the immune system. Her earliest work as a researcher involved the discovery of opiate receptors and the actions of receptors. She has an international reputation in the field of neuropeptide and receptor pharmacology, and chemical neuroanatomy. Dr. Pert has also lectured worldwide on these and other subjects, including her theories on emotions and mind - body communication. Her recent popular book, "Molecules of Emotion, Why You Feel the Way You Fee", (Scribner, September 1997) expounds on her research and theories. She was recently featured in "Washingtonian" magazine (Dec. 2001) as one of Washington's fifty "Best and Brightest" individuals. She holds a number of patents for modified peptides in the treatment of psoriasis, Alzheimer's disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, stroke and head trauma. One of these, peptide T, is currently undergoing research, in the United States, for the treatment of AIDS and neuroAIDS'.
Cited from the Candace Pert web page, 'Biography', http://www.candacepert.com/bio.htm (2005). |
| Description | Correspondence relates to the sending of preprints, reprints and other papers to one another, and Kosterlitz's and Candace's respective work and research. Also relates to Kosterlitz and his wife's [Hanna] intended visit to Washington D.C.
Letter, dated 20 August 1976, from Pert to Kosterlitz, mentions Pert's visit to Aberdeen.
Letter, dated 26 April 1977, from Pert to Kosterlitz, mentions Pert coming down with 'probable viral pneumonia' on her way back from Britain. Letter also sends some scientific samples to Kosterlitz.
Letter, dated 28 September 1978, from Candace [and David Rodbard, National Institute of Child Health and Development, Endocrinology and Reproduction Research Branch], to Kosterlitz, explaining why they are pulling out of a meeting, 'the Receptor Symposium, set to be in Rome, 1979, which they were intially chosen to organise.
Letters, dated September - October 1978, relate to Candace's 'congrats' to Kosterlitz.
There are a number of gaps in the correspondence: between October 1976 and April 1977; between May 1977 and September 1978; October 1978 and July 1979, and July 1979 and December 1980. |