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Information trouvée : Mary Jeanne Kreek (1937 – March 27, 2021) was an American neurobiologist specializing
in the study and treatment of addiction. She is best known for her work with Marie
Nyswander and Vincent Dole in the development of methadone therapy for heroin addiction.
Kreek graduated with a B.A. in chemistry from Wellesley College in 1958, and in 1962,
she received her M.D. from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons;
Kreek completed a fellowship in gastroenterology at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical
Center after completing her M.D. She taught medicine at the Cornell Medical College.
As of November 2015, she was a Senior Attending Physician, the Patrick E. and Beatrice
M. Haggerty Professor, and Head of the Laboratory of the Biology of Addictive Diseases
at The Rockefeller University
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Information trouvée : Kreek is a faculty member in the David Rockefeller Graduate Program, and the Tri-Institutional
M.D.-Ph.D. Program.