Michael Lesch [SEP] date of birth
Michael Lesch
Michael Lesch (June 30, 1939 – March 19, 2008) was a distinguished Jewish American physician and medical educator who helped identify an important genetic disorder associated with retardation and self-mutilation. This disease is now known as the Lesch-Nyhan syndrome. In the mid-1960s when the syndrome was discovered, Lesch was a research associate working at the Laboratory of General and Comparative Biochemistry at the NIH National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Bill Nyhan, a pediatrician and biochemical geneticist, was his mentor
Lesch
Lesch is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Carl Lesch
- John Lesch
- Michael Lesch
- Gabriela Lesch
- Harald Lesch
- Klaus-Peter Lesch
- George Henry Lesch
- Graham Michael Lesch
- Karin Lesch
See also.
- Lesh, a surname and given name