Dr. Bruce A. Holm

Bruce A. Holm ROCHESTER, New York - Bruce A Holm, PhD., 52, of Rochester, died on Wednesday, February 9, 2011, of kidney cancer. A memorial service was held on February 13, 2011, at Temple Sinai, in New York. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the James P. Wilmot Cancer Center for the Bruce A. Holm Lectureship to be established at Wilmot Cancer Center and Roswell Park Cancer Institute, at Wilmot Cancer Center, 300 E. River Road, Box 278996, Rochester, N. Y. 14627. Online condolences may be left at www.anthonychapels.com Dr. Holm was born January 20, 1959, in Waterloo, Iowa, the son of Howard and Bernita Holm, and raised in West Des Moines. He was a professor of pediatrics, gynecology obstetrics and pharmacology and toxicology, senior vice provost at the State University of New York at Buffalo and executive director of the university's Center of Excellence in bioinformatics and life sciences. He became a fellow in perinatology in the Department of Gynecology Obstetrics at SUNY at Buffalo in 1987. He joined the full time faculty in 1989, becoming professor in 1996 and then a SUNY distinguished...[more]

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ofessor in 2009. In 1994, he was named associate dean for research and graduate studies in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. He moved to senior associate vice president for health affairs in 2000 and to senior vice provost in 2002. In 2004, he was named executive director of the Center for Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences. He collaborated with SUNY at Buffalo faculty as a graduate student to conduct groundbreaking studies on the mechanisms of acute oxygen toxicity and in exploring therapeutic strategies to mitigate the damage. Throughout his 24 years at SUNY he was an innovative, productive research scientist. He published hundreds of scientific papers and was awarded research grant funds in excess of $75,000,000. He was a sought after evaluator of research by major scientific journals and by multiple governmental and not-for-profit research granting organizations. He was a world leader in defining the role of lung surfactant in lung diseases from birth through old age and in devising therapies for these diseases. He received a Bachelor of Science in biochemistry from the University of Iowa and a Master of Science and PhD in toxicology from the University of Rochester in 1987. He is survived by his parents; sons, Alexander and Christopher; partner, Janet Penksa; friend and former wife, Allison Holm; aunt and uncle, Gladys and Glenn Reif; friends, Rena Pine and Willem Faber and many friends, family and colleagues.