Christian R. H. Raetz

Christian Rudolf Hubert Raetz was the George Barth Geller Professor of Biochemistry at Duke University. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2006. His laboratorys research focused on lipid biochemistry and has contributed significantly to the understanding of Lipid A biosynthesis.

Raetz was born in 1946 in East Berlin. His parents were industrial chemists. In the early 1950s, the Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation recruited his father, and Raetzs family moved to Columbus, Ohio. Raetz earned his undergraduate degree from Yale University in 1967 and his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University in 1973. Raetz died of anaplastic thyroid cancer on August 16, 2011.

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