Herbert Tabor
Herbert Tabor was an American biochemist and physician-scientist who specialized in the function of polyamines and their role in human health and disease. Tabor was a principal investigator at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases where he was Chief of the Laboratory of Biochemical Pharmacology. He was the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Biological Chemistry from 1971 to 2010.
Education
Tabor was born in New York City in 1918. Tabor received a Bachelor of Arts at Harvard College in 1937 and a Doctor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School in 1941. He was a researcher in the department of biological chemistry at HMS in 1941. Tabor worked in the lab of John Peters researching a carbon monoxide method to measure blood volumes while he completed a medical internship at Yale New Haven Hospital from 1942 to 1943.Career
Tabor was a principal investigator at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases until 2020 and was the Chief of the Laboratory of Biochemical Pharmacology from 1962 to 1996. At the time of his death he held the record as the longest-serving employee in the history of the National Institutes of Health.Tabor was the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Biological Chemistry from 1971 to 2010. Under his direction the journal expanded from 1,000 to 4,500 published articles per annum. He led the transition to online publishing in 1995.