Evelyn M. Anderson

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Anderson returned to the University of California to instruct and became an associate professor of medicine in 1946, while continuing her research on hormone related diseases. Most notably she discovered with her husband Webb E. Haymaker that Cushing's disease is caused by hyper function of the adrenal cortex. Anderson also worked with Joseph Abraham Long, professor of embryology, to develop an apparatus to study the secretions of insulin from the pancreas in a rat model. This model and technique were later used with an immunochemical assay for human insulin. In 1946, Anderson received an award from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to work with Phillip Bard, professor and director of the Department of Physiology at Johns Hopkins University.

She then moved to the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases (NIAMD) at the National Institute of Health where she became the chief of Secretion on Endocrinology (1947-1962). She was Vice President and program chairman of the Endocrine Society (1951-1952). Anderson became a visiting Professor of Physiology at Howard University in 1955, where her research focused on hypothalamic regulation of metabolism. In 1962 she returned to California where she became head of neuroendocrinology at NASA's Ames Research Center (1962-1969). She retired from this position in 1969. During the course of her career, she published over one hundred research papers.

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• John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Award (1946)
• Honorary doctorate from Carleton College (1954)
• Honorary doctorate from the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania (1961)
• Federal Women's Award recipient (1964)