Dr. Alfred Judah Katz (born 1937)
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Born
Married to Deborah Phyllis (Grossman) Katz (born 1948)
Children include Dr. Rebecca Lynn Katz (born 1973)
Middle name "Judah" - https://www.whitepages.com/name/Alfred-Katz/Rockville-MD?fs=1&searchedName=alfred%20katz&searchedLocation=Rockville,%20MD
Biographies
Died on Sunday, January 24, 2016 at his home in Rockville, MD. He is survived by his wife of 43 years, Deborah; daughters, Rebecca Katz (Matt Scharf) and Emily Katz (Laura Chapman); and four grandchildren, Olivia, Benjamin, Leo and Eli. He is also survived by his sister, Miriam Cohen and brother-in-law, Herb Cohen; sister-in-law, Joan Rosenbaum and John Gorham; nephew, Joshua Galper and niece, Satya Welch and their families. Born and raised in the Bronx, son of the late Charlotte and Sirol Katz, Dr. Katz was a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science, Swarthmore College, and the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. A Captain in the U.S. Army, he was stationed at Fort Sam Houston, treating burn victims returning from Vietnam. Dr. Katz was a Board certified pathologist/hematologist/blood banker who had a distinguished career at the American Red Cross for more than 30 years, starting as the Director of Connecticut Blood Services, then becoming Executive Director of Blood Services at National Headquarters, and concluding his career as Senior Director of Biomedical Development at the Jerome H. Holland Laboratory. He also maintained a position as Clinical Professor of Pathology at The George Washington University. Dr. Katz was an avid, top-seeded masters tennis player, a transplant from New York who remained passionate about the N.Y. Giants football team and the New York Yankees. He loved music and the arts, attending concerts, theater, and films. A man for all seasons, he enjoyed travel and hiking trips with his wife.Dr. Katz was a man of great intellect who cared deeply about his family and was concerned about the world around him. His life was guided by high moral and ethical standards. He will be deeply missed. The family is grateful to his caregivers, who have been loyal and devoted to his well-being for the past year and a half. The family asks that donations in his memory be made to The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson''s Research. Funeral services will be held on Thursday, January 28, 2016 at Temple Beth Ami, 14330 Travilah Road, Rockville, MD at 1 p.m.Interment immediately following at the Garden of Remembrance in Clarksburg, MD. [...]
Contact / Directory info
2020 (July 14) - Twitter @RebeccaKatz5
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Evidence Timeline : Dr. Alfred K. Katz
1937 - Born
1940 - Record of father "Sirol Katz" as NYCity employee
http://cityrecord.engineering.nyu.edu/data/1940/1940-08-24.pdf
1966 to 1969 (est.) - Military, US Army (Fort Sam Houston)
"A Captain in the U.S. Army, he was stationed at Fort Sam Houston, treating burn victims returning from Vietnam." - Source : [HL007T][GDrive]
Also see - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Sam_Houston - Most important army medical lab in the world
1967 Research - "Ultrastructural Observations on Platelet Adhesion Reactions : I. Platelet-Fibrin Interaction"
https://ashpublications.org/blood/article/29/3/385/38524/Ultrastructural-Observations-on-Platelet-Adhesion ARTICLE| MARCH 1, 1967 / Blood (1967) 29 (3): 385–400.ROBERT B. ERICHSON, Capt., M.D., MC, ALFRED J. KATZ, M.D., JOSE R. CINTRONNote this Alfred J Katz is associated with Columbia U... NOT the same person...
1969 (July 18) - Dr. Katz to join the new University of Connecticut School of Medicine in August, 1969
Former directory of US army blood lab?
https://www.newspapers.com/image/371031849/?terms=%22Dr.%20Alfred%20Katz%22&match=1
1969-07-18-hartford-courant-pg-34
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y8qUzNcz7snRBVQNwx0jpQyRaSgWCkwV/view?usp=sharing
1969-07-18-hartford-courant-pg-34-clip-blood-bank
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LocmMK89za-seUza9IoX5oKeuEiquiZb/view?usp=sharing
Also see - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Sam_Houston - Most important army medical lab in the world
1969 (Oct 22) - UConn MD Alfred Katz, opposes Vietnam War
https://www.newspapers.com/image/371421148/?terms=%22alfred%20j.%20katz%22&match=1
1970 - Research : "Sterility of Platelet Concentrates Stored at 25C "
https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1537-2995.1970.tb00754.x
First published: November‐December 1970 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1537-2995.1970.tb00754.xCitations: 28
Abstract : One hundred platelet concentrates were stored at 25 C and cultured for bacterial growth on four successive days. No bacterial contamination was detected which suggests that platelet concentrates, prepared in a closed system, are sterile and remain so under these conditions.
1970 (May) - Blood donor appreciation event, with "Robert S. Grossman"
(question - is this a relative of future wife?)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/60682831/?terms=%22alfred%20katz%22&match=1
1971 (June 16) -
With boss, - " Edward E. Morse, M.D. (1932–2005) " ( see bhttp://www.annclinlabsci.org/content/36/3/363.short )
https://www.newspapers.com/image/368437629/?terms=%22alfred%20katz%22&match=1
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1972 (March 29) - Marriage to Deborah Phyllis Grossman
1972 Research : "Factor V Activity in Fresh Frozen and Cryoprecipitate-Removed Plasma1"
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1423-0410.1972.tb03964.x
First published: January 1972 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1423-0410.1972.tb03964.x
Abstract. Factor V activity was assayed in routinely-prepared fresh frozen plasma (FFP) and in frozen plasma, cryoprecipitate-removed (FPCR). Mean activity in FFP within 1 week of preparation was 86%, but declined to 63% after 2 months of storage at -35°C. Within 1 week of preparation, FPCR factor V activity was 56%; there was little loss of activity during 3 months of freezer storage. The difference between FFP and FPCR is due to loss of factor V activity during the 24 h required for preparation of cryoprecipitate. The factor V activity of either FPCR or stored FFP is probably adequate to provide hemostatic levels in a patient who is severely deficient in factor V.
1972 Research - "Electronic Data Processing as an Aid to Statewide Blood Management"
Technology Section
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1537-2995.1972.tb00045.x
A. J. Katz M.D., R. S. Holdt, E. E. Morse M.D.
First published: July–August 1972 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1537-2995.1972.tb00045.x
1972-07-transfusion-journal-electronic-data-processing-as-an-aid-to-statewide-bloof-managment-katz-holdt-morse.pdf
Abstract : An electronic data processing system for blood inventory information is described. The system is operative in a total supply blood program which serves all 41 hospitals in Connecticut. The hospitals have actively contributed to the development and implementation of the system. All hospitals participate, and 11 currently use their own or nearby computer terminals. Collaboration of the Connecticut Red Cross Blood Center with Connecticut Blue Cross, Inc., has permitted the use of computer terminals which were already located in a number of the larger hospitals. This report describes the daily operation of the system, and outlines the variety of information which is currently reported by computer and which is available to the Blood Center and to hospital blood banks.
1973 research : " Reactions of R at Megakaryocytes in Mixed Cell Suspension"
https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.829.3198&rep=rep1&type=pdf
A n n a l s o f C l i n i c a l L a b o r a t o r y S c i e n c e , Vol. 3, No. 6 Copyright © 1973, Institute for Clinical Science Reactions of R at Megakaryocytes in Mixed Cell Suspension* ALFRED J. KATZ, M.D. Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Hartford, CT 06112 ABSTRACT Rat megakaryocytes in mixed bone marrow cell suspension underwent morphologic change when exposed to adenosine diphosphate (ADP) and epinephrine. Viewed by phase microscopy, marginal membranes developed ragged or vacuolated appearance within one minute after exposure to ADP or epinephrine. Recovery from the change induced by ADP occurred within five minutes. These effects were inhibited by prior incubation of the cell suspension with dibutyryl adenosine cyclic monophosphate (DBcAMP) and were not produced by adenosine monophosphate (AMP) or adenosine triphosphate (ATP). The results suggest that megakaryocyte membranes react with agents known to effect platelets and lend support to the indications that demarcating membranes of megakaryocytes derive from the megakaryocyte plasma membrane. No observations were made which relate these observed changes to the release of platelets from megakaryocytes.
1975 Research
https://www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejournals/abstract/10.1055/s-0038-1647882
Thromb Haemost 1975; 33(02): 286-309
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1647882
Original Article
Schattauer GmbH
Jonathan L Miller1 Departments of Pharmacology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut 06032
Alfred J Katz1 Departments of Pharmacology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut 06032
Maurice B Feinstein1 Departments of Pharmacology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut 06032
Summary
The effects of plasmin treatment upon washed human platelets were studied in an attempt to elucidate the mechanisms underlying thrombin-induced platelet aggregation. At calcium concentrations of 10–20 μM, plasmin (0.2 CTA U/ml) inhibited thrombin-induced aggregation almost completely, but did not diminish the thrombin-induced release of adenine nucleotides, 5-hydroxytryptamine, or calcium. Increasing the calcium concentration partially antagonized plasmin’s inhibition of aggregation.
Studies utilizing calcium chelators and the Kunitz soybean trypsin inhibitor (SBTI) as a plasmin inhibitor indicated that in order to achieve maximal block of aggregation, plasmin must act upon a substrate made fully available only after an initial thrombin-platelet interaction has taken place. Moreover, the time course of this inhibition parallels the time course of the thrombin-induced release reaction.
Plasmin inhibition of aggregation could not be mimicked by exposing the platelets to proteolytic digests of fibrinogen at concentrations as high as 17% total platelet protein. Nor could inhibitory activity be recovered from supernatants of plasmin -treated platelets, upon centrifugation and treatment with SBTI.
With the use of a “cold initiation” technique, the release by thrombin of 46.7 ± 6-7 (mean ± SEM) μg of fibrinogen immunological equivalents per mg platelet protein could be demonstrated. Platelets in which thrombin-induced aggregation was abolished by plasmin treatment (and the plasmin subsequently inactivated by SBTI) aggregated normally upon addition of as little as 10 μg human plasma fibrinogen per mg platelet protein.
It is concluded that plasmin inhibition of aggregation most likely results from its attack upon a protein that is released or becomes fully available subsequent to interaction of thrombin with a platelet receptor mediating release. The results of this study are consistent with a cofactor role for fibrinogen in the aggregation of human platelets by thrombin.
* From a thesis submitted by Dr. J. L. Miller in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut.
* This work was presented in part at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, Atlantic City, N. J., April 1973 (Federation Proceedings 32, 289).
http://www.annclinlabsci.org/content/6/6/540.short
Elution of filtered granulocytes for transfusion
Abstract
Functional and clinical transfusion studies were carried out on granulocytes eluted from nylon filters using ACD Saline solutions and 20% CPD Plasma ACD Saline solutions. Although the average volume of blood and total number of granulocytes filtered were the same, the yield of granulocytes eluted form the filters was 20% greater when 20% CPD plasma was in the eluting solution. Function studies indicated that while the antibacterial capacity of the saline eluted granulocytes was equivalent to that of plasma eluted cells, chemotactic activity was markedly reduced after 24 hours storage in the saline eluted cells. Clinical studies post transfusion also suggest better response from plasma eluted granulocytes.
1976 Research : "Concurrently Circulating Hepatitis B Surface Antigen and Heterotypic Anti-HBs Antibody"
https://www.jimmunol.org/content/117/6/2262
George L. Le Bouvier, Roy A. Capper, Alan E. Williams, Marie Pelletier and Alfred J. Katz
J Immunol December 1, 1976, 117 (6) 2262-2264;
Abstract
In the early days of testing for hepatitis B surface antigen (HB8Ag)2 and the homologous antibody (anti-HB8), there were reports of antigen and antibody co-existing in the same serum specimen (1, 2). Their subspecificities were not determined; but their homotypic character was evidently inferred, and in keeping with this idea were certain results obtained by complement fixation (3), and electronmicroscopic observations of circulating complexes apparently made up of HB8Ag-positive Australia particles and antibody molecules (4). Some recent studies have adduced further evidence for the existence of such complexes (5), whereas others have failed to substantiate the concurrent presence of HB8Ag and homologous anti-HB8, at least in the blood of asymptomatic carriers of the antigen (6).
With the definition of distinct antigenic phenotypes of HB8Ag, there arose the theoretical possibility that Australia particles of one phenotype might co-circulate with free anti-HB8 antibody directed against antigenic configurations characteristic of a different phenotype.
Footnotes
↵1 This work was supported by the United States Army Medical Research and Development Command (Contract No. DADA 17-70-C-0042), and by National Institutes of Health Biomedical Research Support Grant No. 5-S07-RR05443.
↵2 Abbreviations used in this paper: HB8Ag, hepatitis B surface antigen; anti-HB8, antibody against HB8Ag; HBV, hepatitis B virus; ID, immunodiffusion; RPHA, reversed passive hemagglutination; SGOT, serum glutamic oxalacetic transaminase.
Received August 2, 1976.
Copyright © 1976 by The American Association of Immunologists, Inc
1978 (Nov) - Research: "Redistribution of Platelets During Discontinous Flow Platelet Pheresis"
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1423-0410.1978.tb02944.x
Alfred J. Katz MD, Robert F. Reiss, Judith A. Houx
First published: November 1978 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1423-0410.1978.tb02944.x
Abstract. Greater numbers of platelets are recovered during discontinuous flow centri-fugation than can be simply accounted for by the decrease in total circulating platelets in the donor. There is a linear relationship between the logarithm of the circulating platelet count and the number of plateletpheresis bowls filled. The disappearance of platelets from the peripheral circulation occurs at a greater rate in splenectomized donors than in normal donors, and the rate of platelet disappearance in normal donors is less than what would be expected if there were no in vivo platelet storage pools. The data suggest the redistribution of platelets from the spleen in normal donors during the time course of the procedure.
1980 - Research - ""Transfusion Therapy: Its Role in the Anemias
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21548331.1980.11946618
Pages 77-84 | Published online: 08 Dec 2017
Abstract : Potentially hazardous and at best supportive, transfusion therapy obligates the clinician to make careful clinical judgments regarding anticipated benefits versus possible complications. Ways to maximize benefit and minimize risk are outlined.
1980 (May 07)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/368532360/?terms=%22alfred%20J.%20katz%22&match=1
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1981 (January 20) - Ronald Reagan becomes US President
1981 (January) - Dr. Alfred Katz attends Meetings in Washington DC, with "guardians of the nation's blood supply" at American Red Cross headquarters to consider a way to prevent hepatitis C from spreading through transfusions.
Source : 2003 (Nov 10) - The Kansas City Star newspaper ( Page A1- Full page at [HN01OV][GDrive] / Clip above at [HN01OW][GDrive] ... Page a11 - Full page above at [HN01OX][GDrive] )
1981 (April 25) - Receives top role at Red Cross in Bethesda, Maryland (near NIH headquarters)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/368571006/?terms=%22alfred%20katz%22&match=1
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1981 (June 05)
Source : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK232417/pdf/Bookshelf_NBK232417.pdf (Dr. Alfred J. Katz mentioned along with Dr. Roger Y. Dodd (mentioned here - https://www.newspapers.com/image/377917496/?terms=%22roger%20dodd%22&match=1 )
"The Risk of AIDS Starting with the identification of 26 homosexual men with opportunistic diseases in June 1981, the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report became the source for reports of the epidemic. By July 1982, enough cases had occurred with common symptomatology to name the new disease ''acquired immune deficiency syndrome" (AIDS). By January 1983, epidemiological evidence from CDC's investigations strongly suggested that blood and blood products transmitted the agent causing AIDS and that the disease could also be transmitted through intimate heterosexual contact. The conclusion that the AIDS agent was blood-borne was based on two findings. First, AIDS was occurring in transfusion recipients and individuals with hemophilia who had received AHF concentrate; these patients did not belong to any previously defined group at risk for contracting AIDS. Second, the epidemiologic pattern of AIDS was similar to hepatitis B, another blood-borne disease."
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"The syndrome that came to be called AIDS was first noticed in homosexual men in 1981, but within a year epidemiologic evidence suggested that AIDS might also be a threat to recipients of blood and blood products. Several blood banks, blood collection agencies, and blood product manufacturers (i.e., plasma fractionators) took some actions to increase blood safety (e.g., donor education and screening to exclude known high-risk groups; terminating plasma collection from prisons; and encouraging autologous donations to reduce the risk of infection as early as January 1983), yet thousands of individuals and members of their families became infected before the implementation of a blood test for HIV in 1985"
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"The first cases of the disease that would come to be known as AIDS came to light as early as October 1980, when Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) was diagnosed in several young homosexual men in Los Angeles. These and similar cases (21 in all) were reported in the following year (CDC, MMWR, June 5, 1981). Shortly thereafter, on July 3, 1981, the CDC reported five new cases of PCP in homosexual men in New York City, Los Angeles, and San Francisco (CDC, MMWR, July 3, 1981). Both KS and PCP are opportunistic infections that occur in individuals with severely weakened immune systems. In addition to reported cases of these diseases, there was an unusual increase in requests made to the CDC for a drug called pentamidine that is used for the treatment of PCP. At the time, this drug could only be dispensed through a physician's request to the CDC (Curran, Evatt interviews). With the possible outbreak of a new infectious disease in the United States coming to the attention of public health officials, the CDC established a task force in July 1981 to monitor the cases of opportunistic infections, to investigate additional cases, to formalize a definition of the disease, and to design a case/control study to examine the prevalence and epidemiology of the disease. The task force was headed by James Curran, chief of CDC's Venereal Disease Control Division (Curran, Foege interviews)."
1983 (Jan 30)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/368803996/?terms=%22alfred%20katz%22&match=1
1983-01-30-hartford-courant-pg-a18-clip-mystery-disease-katz
1983 (June26)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/377439413/?terms=%22Alfred%20Katz%22&match=1
1983-06-26-the-baltimore-sun-pg-a12
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z0XIDgMGnA7nTbadb4xdBMDS0l1tFsoz/view?usp=sharing
1983-06-26-the-baltimore-sun-pg-a12-clip-aids-katz
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WV_GJ7wAQjpkmtyuln6_-IZCc5AZU0h9/view?usp=sharing
1983 (October 02) - Television : With the HHS director Margaret Heckler ? And Jerry Falwell ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Heckler
And with Jerry Falwell ??? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Falwell_Sr.
https://www.newspapers.com/image/172037130/?terms=%22Dr.%20Alfred%20Katz%22&match=1
1983-10-02-the-philadelphia-inquirer-tvweek-pg-59
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y7B0qXkjB7jWjtjd2tRqiuNhT-OW-xCQ/view?usp=sharing
1983-10-02-the-philadelphia-inquirer-tvweek-pg-59-clip-1
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bq2ge1Rv43P6tIeTG_sNxwyUIoUJtFIx/view?usp=sharing
1984 (Jan) - Research : "Impact of AIDS on Blood Services in the United States"
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1423-0410.1984.tb00040.x
https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1423-0410.1984.tb00040.x#
S. Gerald Sandler, Alfred J. Katz MD
First published: January 1984 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1423-0410.1984.tb00040.x
1984 Research - "French, US viral isolates compared in search for cause of AIDS "
https://ur.booksc.eu/book/43330907/6ea43e
jama.1984.03340460003001.pdf
JAMA The Journal of the American Medical Association French, US viral isolates compared in search for cause of AIDS
JAMA The Journal of the American Medical Association1984 / 06 Vol. 251; Iss. 22
1984 Research - "Platelet Preservation in Large Containers"
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1423-0410.1984.tb00061.x
Ram M. Kakaiya MD, Alfred J. Katz
First published: February 1984 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1423-0410.1984.tb00061.xCitations: 16
1 This work was supported (in part) by American Red Cross funds. This work was presented in part at the 34th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Blood Banks, Washington, D.C., November 4, 1981.
Abstract
The influence of the size of the container on platelet concentrate storage at 20–24°C was examined. Baseline studies were obtained with 50 platelet concentrates in 300-ml PL-146 plastic containers. Experimental studies included 6 platelet concentrates each in 300-, 600- and 2,000-ml containers made of PL-146 plastic. Platelet count, total platelets, pO2, pCO2, pH, glucose consumption, lactate production, platelet morphology and recovery by platelets to osmotic stress were monitored during storage.
During storage, the best pH and morphology values were observed with 2,000-ml containers. The lowest glucose consumption and lactate production were also associated with the 2,000-ml containers. Intermediate improvement in these parameters was noted in 600-ml containers. Recovery from osmotic stress was better in 2,000- and 600-ml containers as compared to 300-ml containers. In addition, characteristic changes in pO2 and pCO2 during storage suggest that improved platelet preservation in larger containers is due to improved gas exchange conditions obtained with increased surface area available for gas exchange.
1985 (Sep 26) - Congressional hearings on funding of AIDS response/research
https://www.c-span.org/video/?125690-1/aids-funding
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"CSPAN, Sep 26 1985 : Dr. Alfred J Katz, Red Cross director at US Congressional hearings on HIV/AIDS"
Witnesses testified on federal funding for AIDS research, detection and treatment.
statements in book - https://books.google.com/books?id=YgE6yfHXS9oC&dq=%22alfred+katz%22+%2B+%22weicker%22&source=gbs_navlinks_s
1985-09-26-usa-congress-hearing-aids-response-resarch.pdf
on live 3 - https://youtu.be/908UFweuRBM /
PEOPLE IN THIS VIDEO
Alfonse M. D'Amato : U.S. Senator , [R] New York
Vincent T. DeVita M.D. : Physician
William Haseltine : Doctor , Harvard University
Donald Hopkins : Acting Director , Centers for Disease Control
Alfred Katz : Hematologist , American Red Cross
Daniel Licht : Doctor
Donald MacDonald : Administrator , Department of Health and Human Services->Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health
James Ostermann Mason : Acting Assistant Secretary , Department of Health and Human Services
Malcolm Moore : Doctor , Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Lowell P. Weicker Jr. : U.S. Senator , [R] Connecticut
James Wyngaarden : Director , National Institutes of Health
Frank E. Young M.D. : Commissioner , U.S. Food and Drug Administration
1986 (Aug 01) - Bone marrow registry ...
also see this - https://chodarr.org/sites/default/files/chodarr2894.pdf
https://www.newspapers.com/image/19768615/?terms=%22Alfred%20Katz%22&match=1
1986-08-01-the-santa-fe-new-mexican-pg-a3
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oMhQxM1z1Ja0VQJmknWaMHHTGakRjil2/view?usp=sharing
1986-08-01-the-santa-fe-new-mexican-pg-a3-clip-bone-marrow
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vSo2tLlTZFzBBHLRSJq9QzX8YN6IuAw1/view?usp=sharing
Researchers took issue yesterday with a statement by Senator Lowell P. Weicker Jr. that an experimental, antiviral drug could extend the lives of patients with AIDS and related disorders.
Senator Weicker, a Connecticut Republican, made the assertion Wednesday as he argued successfully for Senate passage of legislation that would add $47 million next year for research on the disease, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, which destroys the ability to fight infection.
The legislation, if accepted by the House, would make experimental drugs widely available to as many as 10,000 severely ill patients with AIDS and AIDS-related complex.
Drugs with potential for treating AIDS are available now only to patients enrolled in scientific experiments. Federal officials have argued that this is the fastest way to determine which treatments are safe and effective, but some AIDS victims and their advocates have argued that dying patients should have access even to unproved drugs if they wished. Weicker's Appeal for Funds
Senator Weicker said in proposing the legislation, ''At least 10,000 people can live six extra months, and I'm not coming off the floor of the United States Senate until I get the money to see that that happens.''
He said the National Cancer Institute had only enough money to provide the drug, azidothymidine, to 1,000 people in the terminal state of the disease. Researchers familiar with the testing of AIDS drugs said, however, that it was not yet known whether the drug the drug, also called AZT, could prolong life in AIDS patients.
''We would hope it would prolong the life of people with the disease,'' said Dr. Anthony Fauci, coordinator of AIDS research for the National Institutes of Health. ''You can't say that, because we don't know.'' Not a Cure, Researchers Stress
Dr. Robert Gallo of the National Cancer Institute, who is one of the discoverers of the AIDS virus, said, ''I don't think AZT is any cure, or any great tremendous advance. But I do think it's likely to be among the best things we have now, perhaps the best.''
Dr. Martin Hirsch of the Massachusetts General Hospital, who is studying azidothymidine, said: ''I think it's a very promising drug. We know that it inhibits the replication or growth of the virus in the laboratory.''
1991
https://www.newspapers.com/image/468911891/?terms=%22Alfred%20Katz%22&match=1 (note - in Princeton, New jersey)
1991 (June 16)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/181975538/?terms=%22Alfred%20Katz%22&match=1
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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kbZWMwVWvx9aL9e6T6G1f5EzzVu5jLvY/view?usp=sharing
1991-06-16-the-clarion-ledger-jackson-ms-pg-4-clip-blood.jpg
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jKfrv9Q7jZZuf0c86_X4uIGVB8Y-d8y-/view?usp=sharing
1993 (Sep) - Research : "Summary of the National Institutes of Health Workshop on Primary Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Infection 1,2 "
https://ur.booksc.eu/book/32754377/a1e304
Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1..
AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses1993 / 09 Vol. 9; Iss. 9
NIU, MANETTE T., JERMANO, JOHN A., REICHELDERFER, PATRICIA, SCHNITTMAN, STEVEN M.
AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses
DOI: 10.1089/aid.1993.9.913
Date: September, 1993
2003 (Nov 10) - The Kansas City Star newspaper
2005 (Sep 10) - Mother passes, "Charlotte Breuer Katz"
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/10/classified/paid-notice-deaths-katz-charlotte-breuer.html
Sept. 10, 2005
KATZ--Charlotte Breuer, 94. Devoted to Sirol (deceased), children Alfred and Deborah Katz, Miriam and Herb Cohen, grandchildren, great grandchildren. Caring, generous, thoughtful, indomitable. A force in so many lives. Graveside service Sunday. Shiva in Riverdale for three days. Contributions to Hatzalah Ambulance, PO Box 181, Riverdale, NY 10471 or Children's Aid Society.
Died on Sunday, January 24, 2016 at his home in Rockville, MD. He is survived by his wife of 43 years, Deborah; daughters, Rebecca Katz (Matt Scharf) and Emily Katz (Laura Chapman); and four grandchildren, Olivia, Benjamin, Leo and Eli. He is also survived by his sister, Miriam Cohen and brother-in-law, Herb Cohen; sister-in-law, Joan Rosenbaum and John Gorham; nephew, Joshua Galper and niece, Satya Welch and their families. Born and raised in the Bronx, son of the late Charlotte and Sirol Katz, Dr. Katz was a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science, Swarthmore College, and the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. A Captain in the U.S. Army, he was stationed at Fort Sam Houston, treating burn victims returning from Vietnam. Dr. Katz was a Board certified pathologist/hematologist/blood banker who had a distinguished career at the American Red Cross for more than 30 years, starting as the Director of Connecticut Blood Services, then becoming Executive Director of Blood Services at National Headquarters, and concluding his career as Senior Director of Biomedical Development at the Jerome H. Holland Laboratory. He also maintained a position as Clinical Professor of Pathology at The George Washington University. Dr. Katz was an avid, top-seeded masters tennis player, a transplant from New York who remained passionate about the N.Y. Giants football team and the New York Yankees. He loved music and the arts, attending concerts, theater, and films. A man for all seasons, he enjoyed travel and hiking trips with his wife.Dr. Katz was a man of great intellect who cared deeply about his family and was concerned about the world around him. His life was guided by high moral and ethical standards. He will be deeply missed. The family is grateful to his caregivers, who have been loyal and devoted to his well-being for the past year and a half. The family asks that donations in his memory be made to The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson''s Research. Funeral services will be held on Thursday, January 28, 2016 at Temple Beth Ami, 14330 Travilah Road, Rockville, MD at 1 p.m.Interment immediately following at the Garden of Remembrance in Clarksburg, MD. [...]
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Name:
Alfred J Katz
Birth Date:
Dec 1937
Residence Date:
1995-2020
Address:
10401 Grosvenor Pl Apt 1607
Residence:
Rockville, Maryland, USA
Postal Code:
20852
Second Residence Date:
1995-2020
Second Address:
10401 Grosvenor Pl Apt 1322
Second Residence:
Rockville, Maryland, USA
Second Postal Code:
20852
Third Residence Date:
1995-2020
Third Address:
10401 Grosvenor Pl Apt 1607n
Third Residence:
Rockville, Maryland, USA
Third Postal Code:
20852
Fourth Residence Date:
1995-2020
Fourth Address:
10401 Grosvenor Pl Unit 2008
Fourth Residence:
Rockville, Maryland, USA
Fourth Postal Code:
20852
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