Daniel C. Tosteson (February 5, 1925 Milwaukee - May 27, 2009 Boston) was an American academic, and physiologist. He was president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences from 1997 to 2000. He graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Medical School. He taught at Washington University in St. Louis and

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...

. He was Caroline Shields Walker Distinguished Professor of Cell Biology at Harvard University. From 1977 to 1997, he was dean of the Harvard Medical School.

Legacy

A lecture series in health care policy was named for him.

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