Full Text of HR0648 095th General Assembly
HR0648 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 |
| Representatives are saddened to learn of the death of
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| esteemed member of the faculty of the University of Chicago, | 5 |
| Dr. Lewis S. Seiden, who passed away on July 26, 2007; and
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| WHEREAS, Lewis Seiden was born on August 1, 1934 in | 7 |
| Chicago, where he grew up in the South Shore neighborhood; he | 8 |
| signed on to an early enrollment program at the University of | 9 |
| Chicago, where he eventually earned his undergraduate and | 10 |
| doctoral degrees; at age 18 he was stricken with dystonia, | 11 |
| which caused him to abandon his plans to attend medical school; | 12 |
| after spending a year in the hospital, he instead turned his | 13 |
| attention to the neurobiology field; and | 14 |
| WHEREAS, He then spent a year in Sweden doing post-doctoral | 15 |
| research with Arvid Carlsson, who would later win the 2000 | 16 |
| Nobel Prize in medicine; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1963 he returned to Chicago and the University | 18 |
| and rose through the ranks of the Department of Pharmacology | 19 |
| and Physiology and the Department of Psychiatry, becoming a | 20 |
| full professor in 1977; he also taught in the College and was a | 21 |
| member of the Committee on Neurobiology and the Brain Research | 22 |
| Institute; during his career at the University he trained more |
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| than 30 doctoral students, including many scholars who went on | 2 |
| to play leading roles in the field; and | 3 |
| WHEREAS, Lew Seiden was considered a pioneer in the field | 4 |
| of neuropharmacology, conducting studies on the effects of | 5 |
| anti-depressants and methamphetamines on the brain; he was an | 6 |
| expert on how drugs, especially amphetamines, could | 7 |
| selectively damage certain neurons; his research showed that | 8 |
| drugs such as methamphetamines, Ecstasy, and fen-phen caused | 9 |
| damage to brain cells; and
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| WHEREAS, Lew Seiden, recognized as a world expert on | 11 |
| psychopharmocology, won many awards for his research: he was | 12 |
| elected a Fellow of the American Association for the | 13 |
| Advancement of Science and of the American Psychological | 14 |
| Association; he was awarded an honorary doctorate in medicine | 15 |
| from the University of Goteborg; and he won the University of | 16 |
| Chicago's Gold Key Award, recognizing outstanding service to | 17 |
| the Biological Sciences Division and to the University; and | 18 |
| WHEREAS, Lew Seiden published more than 220 scientific | 19 |
| papers and 40 book chapters on neurochemistry, the brain and | 20 |
| behavior, drug effects, and neurotoxicity; and | 21 |
| WHEREAS, Lew Seiden served on the President's Advisory | 22 |
| Committee on Mental Health, the board of scientific counselors |
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| for the National Institute of Environmental Health Services, | 2 |
| and the Life Sciences Working Group for the National | 3 |
| Aeronautics and Space Administration; and | 4 |
| WHEREAS, Lew Seiden is survived by his loving wife, Anne; | 5 |
| his children, Samuel Seiden, Alex (Larraine) Seiden, and Evelyn | 6 |
| (Toby) Ivey; and his grandson, Lewis George Seiden; he will | 7 |
| also be missed by the University community, his colleagues, and | 8 |
| his many friends; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 10 |
| NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 11 |
| mourn, along with his family, friends, and colleagues, the | 12 |
| passing of Dr. Lewis S. Seiden; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 14 |
| presented to the family of Dr. Lewis S. Seiden as an expression | 15 |
| of our sympathy.
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