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Toxicological Sciences 63, 151-152 (2001)
Copyright © 2001 by the Society of Toxicology

PROFILES IN TOXICOLOGY

Louis James Casarett (1927–1972)

Paul E. Morrow*, Margaret C. Bruce{dagger} and John Doull{ddagger},{ddagger}

* University of Rochester, 575 Elmwood Avenue, Rochester, New York 14642; {dagger} Chandler Medical Center, University of Kentucky Medical School, 800 Rose Street, Lexington, Kentucky 40536-0001; {ddagger} University of Kansas Medical Center, Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology, and Therapeutics, 3901 Rainbow Boulevard, Kansas City, Kansas 66160

Received September 7, 2000; accepted September 7, 2000

Lou Casarett was born in Rochester, New York. His forebears, the Casaretti family, emigrated from Italy to Rochester during the Civil War era. Lou attended primary and secondary schools in Rochester and during World War II, served in the U.S. Navy. In 1950, he obtained his B.S. degree from the University of Michigan. In 1951, Lou returned to Rochester, and Paul Morrow, who became a close personal friend, recalls with considerable pleasure picking Lou up each day to take him to and from the university as he had no car. Lou was a determined and successful graduate student who enthusiastically joined Professor Harold Hodge's research division, a predecessor of the University of Rochester's first Department of Pharmacology. Lou received his master of science degree in 1955 and his doctor of philosophy degree in 1958, both from the Division of Pharmacology and Toxicology of the Department of Radiation Biology at the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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