Otto Z. Sellinger

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Otto Z. Sellinger, research scientist in the Mental Health Research Institute and research scientist in the Department of Psychiatry, Medical School, retired from active faculty status on December 31, 1993, after a productive career in neurochemical research.

Born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, Dr. Sellinger received his primary education in Rome and his S.B. degree in quantitative biology in 1954 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. degree in biochemistry in 1958 at Tulane University, to which he returned as an assistant professor of biochemistry and medicine following two postdoctoral NIH fellowship years in Rome with E. B. Chain (Nobel Laureate, 1945) and in Louvain, Belgium, with C. de Duve (Nobel Laureate, 1974). He came to the University of Michigan in 1965 as an associate research pharmacologist at the Mental Health Research Institute, rising to the rank of research scientist in 1969.

Dr. Sellinger made many contributions to neurochemistry, among them an understanding of methionine and glutamine metabolism in relation to seizure activity. He is also well known for his techniques for methods for isolation of neuronal and glial cells from brain tissue. Most recently, he studied carboxylmethylation of proteins in relation to aging. He has participated in many professional societies, including service as a member of the Council of the American Society for Neurochemistry and the membership committee of the International Society of Neurochemistry. He was a Fulbright Visiting Research Professor at the School of Medicine in Montevideo, Uruguay, an Organization of American States fellow in Brazil, and a National Academy of Sciences lecturer in Yugoslavia. He was a UNESCO lecturer in Venezuela and was awarded a Fogarty International Health Scientist Award to the Claude Bernard University in Lyon, France. Because of his remarkable facility in languages, Dr. Sellinger often lectured in the language of the country he was visiting when abroad.

The University of Michigan Regents now salute this distinguished scientist by naming Otto Sellinger research scientist emeritus.
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