Dr. Allan D. Bass (1910-2005) was a scientist, an educator, and an administrator; he pioneered pharmacological research on skin sterilizing agents, sulfonamides, hormones, adrenal corticosteroids, anthelmintics and chemical transmitters. At…
From left to right, Dr. Daniel H. Efron; Dr. Allan D. Bass; Governor Winfield Dunn; Dr. Bertram S. Brown; Dr. Fridolin Sulser; Dr. Morris A. Lipton; Commissioner Frank H. Luton; Dr. Alexander Heard (Chancellor of Vanderbilt University)
A 1939 graduate of Vanderbilt Medical School, Dr. Bass (1910-2005) served as the chair of the Department of Pharmacology from 1953-1973, and as associate dean of the medical school from 1973-74. This photograph depicts Dr. Bass as a young Vanderbilt…
Vanderbilt professors Allan Bass and Fridolin Sulser meet with Julius Axelrod, co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology in 1970. Dr. Axelrod was not a faculty member at Vanderbilt, but was instead a researcher at the National…