Luis Federico Leloir

He got married to Amelia Zuberbuhler in 1937 and had a daughter named Amelia.

Luis Federico Leloir died in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on December 2, 1987.

Luis Federico Leloir was born in Paris, France, on September 6, 1906 where his parents had come for medical treatment. His father, Federico Leloir was a non-practicing lawyer and his mother was Hortensia Aguirre de Leloir.

He returned to Argentina with his mother after his father died in Paris.

He did his initial schooling from the ‘Escuela General San Martin’ primary school, the ‘Colegio Lacordaire’ secondary school and finally the ‘Beumont College, England’ where he studied only for a few months.

He studied architecture for some time at the ‘Ecloe Polytechnique’ in Paris but had to abandon his studies due to poor grades.

He joined the ‘Department of Medicine’ at the University of Buenos Aires’ after returning to Argentina. He received his degree in medicine in 1932 and did his internship at the ‘Ramos Mejia Hospital’ in Buenos Aires from 1932 to 1934.

Luis Federico Leloir joined the ‘Institute of Physiology’ under the ‘University of Buenos Aires’ as a research assistant and worked there with Bernardo A. Houssay on the role played by adrenalin on carbohydrate metabolism from 1934 to 1935.

He moved to the UK in 1936 and worked for one year at the ‘Biochemical Laboratory’ of ‘Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins Hospital’ under the ‘University of Cambridge’.

He returned to Argentina in 1937 and completed his doctoral work on the effect of the adrenal glands on carbohydrate metabolism.

He moved to the United States in 1943 due to political unrest in Argentina and joined the department of pharmacology at the ‘Washington University School of Medicine’ in St. Louis. While there, he worked with Carl F. and Gerty T. Cori at the ‘Cori’s Laboratory’ located in St. Louis.

In 1944 he joined the ‘College of Physicians and Surgeons’ under the ‘University of Columbia’ in New York as a research assistant and worked with D. E. Green.

Luis Federico Leloirs’s articles and books include ‘Suprarrenales y Metabolismo de los hidratos de carbon (1934)’, ‘Farmacologia de la hipertensia (1940)’, ‘Hipertension arterial nefrogena (1943), ‘Invitro Synthesis of Particulate Glycogen’, ‘Properties of synthetic and native liver glycogen’and others.