Gerald M. Edelman

Dr. Edelman is the Chairman of NGN Capital.
He joined General American Investors in 1976.
He practiced medicine at both Massachusetts General Hospital, and the hospital of Rockefeller University from 1957 to 1960.
He was the faculty of Rockefeller from 1960 to 81, and became director of their Neurosciences Institute in 1981.
He shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in physiology for his investigations of the structure of the primary human antibody, immunoglobulin G.
He then focused his research on cellular immune responses and inter-cellular communication in the immune system and the brain.
Dr. Edelman is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Society of Biological Chemists and the American Association of Immunologists, as well as a number of other scientific societies.