Commemorating the Contributions of Cancer Research Greats
March 12, 2021, by Norman E. Sharpless, M.D.
Dr. Emil Freireich, who died in February 2021, working with a blood cell separator at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Credit: National Cancer Institute
There are those moments, those events that make it the ideal time to stop and reflect on the past.
Such is the case with the passing of Dr. Emil Freireich, who died last month at the age of 93 in Houston, his long-time home. Having begun his career in the 1950s at NCI, Dr. Freireich went on to become one of the most accomplished physician–scientists to ever step into a lab or comfort a worried patient.