1939 - 2008
Michael Lesch American Cardiologist
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| First Name |
Michael
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| Last Name |
Lesch
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| Birthday |
30th November, 1938
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| Birthplace |
New York City
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| Died |
19th March, 2008
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| Place of Death |
Argentina
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| Nationality |
American
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| Occupation Text |
Physician
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| Occupation |
Cardiologist
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Michael Lesch (June 30, 1939 – March 19, 2008) was a Jewish American physician and medical educator who helped identify an important genetic disorder associated with retardation and self-mutilation. This disease is now known as the Lesch–Nyhan syndrome. In the mid-1960s when the syndrome was discovered, Lesch was a research associate working at the Laboratory of General and Comparative Biochemistry at the NIH National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland. William Nyhan, a pediatrician and biochemical geneticist, was his mentor. Lesch was 30 years old when he discovered the disease.
