Frederik B. Bang Award

Frederik Bang, D, served as chair of the Departments of Parasitology from 1953 to 1955 and Pathobiology from 1955 to 1981. His research was noted for translating the microscopic to the macroscopic. Dr. Bang was an extraordinarily creative scientist whose interests ranged from microscopy to animal ecology. By using the blood of the horseshoe crab, Dr. Bang and a colleague, Dr. Jack Levin, developed a procedure to identify and diagnose meningitis in septicemia, a blood poison illness that once struck 75,000 young people a year. His widow, the late Betsy Bang, and various family members and colleagues established this fund in his memory to support a doctoral student engaged in research relevant to pathobiology.