Harry Gelboin
Harry V. Gelboin (1929–2010) was an American cancer research scientist, particularly in chemical carcinogenesis. From 1966 to 1999, he was Chief of the Laboratory of Molecular Carcinogenics (now called the Laboratory of Metabolism) at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). His research focused on the activation and detoxification of drugs and carcinogens. He is best known for his studies of the genetic mechanisms by which normal cells transform into malignancy, which constituted a major advance in cancer research. Biography Gelboin was born in Chicago in 1929, the oldest child of Eva (Jurkowsky/Jerkowsky) and Herman Gelboim, recent immigrants from Poland and Russia. He had one younger sister, Helen Friedman. He grew up in a working class Jewish family in the Humboldt Park section of Chicago. His parents ran a stall and later a store at Chicago's Maxwell Street market. He attended Chicago public schools, graduating from ...
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