Renowned physician and medical geneticist Leon Rosenberg, known for clarifying the biochemical basis of some metabolic disorders, died on July 22. His wife, Diane Drobnis Rosenberg, tells The Washington Post that her husband died of pneumonia at home in Lawrenceville, New Jersey.
“He really was a visionary who recognized much, much, much earlier than almost everyone else that genetics—and now genomics—would play a role in medicine that would stand on its own,” Huntington Willard, Rosenberg’s former PhD student, now a geneticist at Genome Medical, tells the Post.
Rosenberg was born on March 3, 1933 in Madison, Wisconsin, and grew up in the nearby suburb of Waunakee, reports the Post. He graduated in 1957 with an MD from the University of Wisconsin, where he’d also earned his bachelor’s, according to the outlet. After completing his medical internship, he treated children with genetic disorders at the National Cancer Institute for six years.
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