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Persoonlijke gegevens David de Wied 

• Hij is geboren op 12 januari 1925 in Deventer.
• Titel: Prof. Dr.
• Beroep: Professor Farmacologie.
• Opleiding: Universiteit Groningen.
• Nationaliteit: Nederlands.
• Geloof: geen.
• Hij is overleden op 21 februari 2004 in Utrecht, hij was toen 79 jaar oud.
• Hij is begraven in Bilthoven, Den en Rust.

Gezin van David de Wied

Hij is getrouwd met Alyda - Lietje Prins.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 5 juli 1952 te Delft, hij was toen 27 jaar oud.

Notities over David de Wied

David De Wied

 

Founder of the Rudolf Magnus Institute

 

David de Wied (January 12, 1925 - February 21, 2004) was born in Deventer, The Netherlands. He studied medicine at the University of Groningen, where he got his PhD in 1952 for his thesis, 'Vitamine C, Bijnier en Adaptatie' ('Vitamin C, the Adrenal gland, and Adaptation'), his promotor was Prof. Dr. J.H. Gaarenstroom. In 1955 he received his M.D. degree. In 1950, he was appointed at the Department of Pharmacology at the Medical Faculty of the University of Groningen. Decisive for his later research was a fellowship in 1957/1958 at the Department of Clinical Sciences of the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, where he worked together with I. Arthur Mirsky. During this period De Wied conducted experiments studying the effects of pituitary and adrenal hormones on the behaviour of rats. From this emerged the concept that pituitary hormones could effect the central nervous system, independently of their endocrine influences. In 1958 he was appointed Associate Professor of Pharmacology at the Medical Faculty of the University of Groningen. In 1961, he was appointed Professor in Experimental Endocrinology at the same faculty.

 

In 1963, he was appointed Professor in Medical Pharmacology and Chairman of the Pharmacological Institute of the Medical Faculty of the University of Utrecht.

 

Subsequently, he was visiting professor at the universities of Portland, Rome, and Wisconsin. His most important contribution to science was that he recognised very early that peptides orchestrate brain function and behaviour, and that the nervous system itself produced peptide hormones, which yielded smaller fragments with new biological information. At the end of the 1960’s he posed his famous neuropeptide concept, which guided many researchers in the world in their efforts to unravel the intimate functional relationships between neuropeptides, brain, and behaviour. In the 1970’s his fundamental research led to clinical research investigating the proposed role of neuropeptides on human psychopathology.

 

In 1968, on De Wied’s initiative, the Department of Pharmacology was renamed 'Rudolf Magnus Institute of Pharmacology', to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the first chair for Pharmacology in The Netherlands. De Wied retired in 1990 from Utrecht University.

 

De Wied held many leading national and international positions in science, among which president of FUNGO-ZWO (fundamental research in medicine, the Netherlands), president of the steering committee of the European Training Programme in Brain and Behavioural Research, and President of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (1984

Ze hebben 4 kinderen: David Jan 20-3-1952; Christina Charlotte 2-11-1954 (gehuwd op 25-5-1984 met W.H. Gispen); Marie Annette 28-3-1958 en Carolien Alijda 10-5-1960

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