Claim: Gerald Edelman born 1929 was the Assistant (later Associate) Dean of Graduate Studies Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, he moved to Houston and began research into the regulation of primary cellular processes.
Evidence: Gerald Maurice Edelman
(1929-07-01)July 1, 1929
Ozone Park, Queens, New York After his Nobel prize award, Edelman began research into the regulation of primary cellular processes, particularly the control of cell growth and the development of multi-celled organisms, focussing on cell-to-cell interactions in early embryonic development and in the formation and function of the nervous system. For this work, Edelman and Porter shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1972.