도로시 한신 안데르센

소개

도로시 한신 앤더슨(Dorothy Hansine Andersen, 1901년 5월 15일 - 1963년 3월 3일)은 미국의 의사, 소아과 의사, 병리학자로 낭포성 섬유증 질병을 처음으로 식별하여 기술하고 그 이름을 지은 사람이다. 이러한 공로로 1939년에 E. 미드 존슨 상을 수상했다. 2002년에 국립 여성 명예의 전당에 헌액되었다.

Dorothy Hansine Andersen was the American physician and researcher who first identified and named cystic fibrosis. During her almost thirty year tenure at Babies Hospital of Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, Andersen not only identified CF and its inheritance through a recessive gene, she was also at the forefront of developing diagnostic tests and life-extending treatments for the disease. Andersen was also active in researching other diseases that are diagnosed in children. She was the first to describe Glycogen storage disease type IV, which, in recognition of her contributions, became known as Andersen's Disease. Her research on heart malformations informed the development of open heart surgery and the training of new surgeons.