Edward Shanbrom

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Edward Shanbrom (November 29, 1924 – February 20, 2012) was an American medical researcher and hematologist who helped develop a way to produce Factor VIII, a protein that helps blood clot, to treat people with hemophilia. He was born in West Haven, Connecticut, and served in the U.S. Navy from 1943 to 1946. He earned a B.S. from Allegheny College and an M.D. from the University of Buffalo. After an internship, he did a hematology fellowship at Yale and worked at several hospitals while teaching at UCLA and UC Irvine. While at the Hyland division of Baxter Laboratories, he helped create a method to manufacture Factor VIII that could be given by injection to hemophiliacs. In the mid-1970s he left Hyland to pursue research on cleaning viruses from blood using detergent-based methods; in 1988 the New York Blood Center purchased his virus-inactivation patents. He supported medical research through The Shanbrom Family Foundation and related funds. He received awards from the American Board of Internal Medicine, the National Hemophilia Foundation, and other institutions, and earned an honorary doctorate from Allegheny College. He was a member of the American Association for Cancer Research and the American Society of Hematology. In 2007 UC Irvine named the Edward Shanbrom, M.D. Hall in his honor for hematology research and philanthropy, and there is also the Edward Shanbrom, M.D. Laboratory for the Study of Blood and Natural Products.