Dr. Alfred Stracher
Stracher came to SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University as an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry in 1959. He became Professor of Biochemistry in 1968 and a Distinguished Professor of the State University of New York in 1997. He was chairman of the Biochemistry Department from 1972 to 2006 (the longest serving Biochemistry chair in U.S. medical schools) and Director of the Center for Drug Delivery Research at Downstate Medical Center from 2010 to his death in 2013. Overall, he was an active faculty member at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University for 54 years.