Dr. Ronald W. Estabrook joined the Southwestern Medical School faculty in 1968 and served as the chair of the Biochemistry Department for 14 years. He was also the first Dean of the UT Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences from 1973 to 1976.
He made the campus a world-recognized center for biochemistry research and education in the late 1960s and 1970s, attracting many of the nation's best and brightest scientists and students. Estabrook was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1975, and in 1979, he became the first UT Southwestern faculty member elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
In 2006, the UT Board of Regents named him an Ashbel Smith Professor.
In 2007, Southwestern Medical School honored Dr. Estabrook by naming one of its six newly-created colleges after him.
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