Graham Jamieson, Director Of Blood Research, 78

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Graham Jamieson; Director of Blood Research

By Patricia Sullivan, Washington Post Staff Writer

Graham A. Jamieson, 78, former research director of American Red Cross
Blood Services, died after a heart attack March 29 [2008] at his
Bethesda [Maryland] home.

Dr. Jamieson worked for the organization for 38 years. He oversaw
major growth in the program and expanded into new scientific and
technical fields.

Born in Wellington, New Zealand, Dr. Jamieson graduated from the
University of Otago there, where he also received a master's degree in
science in 1951. He received a doctorate in organic chemistry at the
University of London's Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine in
1954. He later received a second doctorate in organic chemistry and
biochemistry in 1972, also from the University of London.

Research fellowships took him to the Royal Technical University in
Stockholm [Sweeden] from 1955 to 1956 and then to the Cornell Medical
College in New York in 1956 and 1957. He then joined the National
Institutes of Health in Bethesda as a visiting scientist.

In 1961, Dr. Jamieson joined American Red Cross Blood Services as a
biochemist in the transfusion blood research and development program.
In 1964, he became a senior scientist and the assistant research
director, and he was named research director five years later.

Dr. Jamieson's research attracted 30 years of continuous grant funding
and earned a MERIT Award from the National Heart, Lung and Blood
Institute. In 1997, the International Society on Thrombosis and
Haemostasis gave him its Shirley Johnson Award, and he became a fellow
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He had
lectured and taught as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University's
School of Medicine since 1961.

He published more than 160 journal articles and 18 books and
collections of symposium proceedings. The American Red Cross
established the Graham A. Jamieson Lectureship in Blood Research, the
first such recognition to be accorded to a scientist by the
organization.

He retired in 1999.

An avid motorcyclist in his youth, Dr. Jamieson and his wife spent
their honeymoon riding a 500cc BMW to the West Coast and back.

Survivors include his wife of 48 years, Barbara MacLachlan Jamieson of
Bethesda; a son, Brian Jamieson of Bethesda; and two grandchildren.

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