Medicine, Emeritus in 1979. After retiring from Harvard Medical School he continued his research at the Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research with his former colleague Dr. Hoagland. When the foundation merged with the University of Massachusetts Medical School in 1997, Dr. Zamecnik moved his laboratory to MGH, where he continued to work until several weeks before his death. Paul Zamecnik is generally regarded as the founder of antisense therapy. Zamecnik authored or co-authored 210 peer-reviewed scientific articles. He won many distinguished awards, including the National Cancer Society National Award in 1968, National Medal of Science in 1991, and the first-ever Lasker Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996. Zamecnik was also a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Society of Biological Chemistry, American Association for Cancer Research (President 1964–1965), Association of American Physicians, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters and the American Philosophical Society. Zamecnik married Mary Connor in 1936 (deceased 2005), and together they had 3 children, 7 grand children and 5 great-grandchildren. Zamecnik died on October 27, 2009, at his home in Boston. He was 96 years old. References Sources Hans-Jörg Rheinberger. Toward a History of Epistemic Things: Synthesizing Proteins in the Test Tube. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. External links Lasker Luminaries: Paul Zamecnik Inventor of the Week: Paul C. Zamecnik Paul Charles Zamecnik papers, 1910-2011 (inclusive), 1931-2009 (bulk). H MS c352. Harvard Medical Library, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Boston, Mass. 1912 births 2009 deaths Scientists from Cleveland American geneticists American people of Czech descent Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Dartmouth College alumni Harvard Medical School alumni National Medal of Science laureates Harvard Medical School faculty Carlsberg Laboratory staff Burials at Mount Auburn Cemetery Burials in Massachusetts 20th-century American inventors 20th-century American scientists Members of the National Academy of Medicine