Henry Weiner

Henry Weiner, 73
Henry “Hank” Weiner, 73, of West Lafayette, died Thursday, Oct. 28, 2010, in his home.
Born May 18, 1937, in Cleveland, Ohio, he was the son of the late Philip and Hilda Dapeer Weiner. He graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio, Texas, earned a degree in chemical engineering from Case Institute of Technology in 1959 and a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Purdue University in 1963. He did post doctoral work with Daniel Koshland at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Brookhaven, N.Y., and Hugo Theorell at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.
On June 11, 1960, he married Esther Blankfeld in Cleveland.
In 1966, he joined the faculty of the Purdue University biochemistry department as an assistant professor. He was promoted to associate professor in 1969 and to full professor in 1976. He received numerous awards from the National Institutes of Health for his scientific research, including a Career Development Award in 1978, Senior Scientist Awards in 1983 and 1988, and a MERIT Award in 1989.
In 2006 he was recognized for being in the top 5 percent of NIH grant award winners during the previous 25 years. From Purdue, he received the Seed for Success Award in recognition of receiving research grants of $1 million or more. He was recognized as the Outstanding Graduate Educator in the School of Agriculture in 2008. In 2009 he received the Provost?s Award for Outstanding Graduate Faculty Mentor in the University.
He was the founder and organizer of the international scientific meeting Enzymology and Molecular Biology of Carbonyl Metabolism, held biennially since 1982. After each meeting, he edited a book or special edition of a journal in which the manuscripts from the meetings were published. He is the author of more than 200 journal articles, and he was the author of a chapter in a biochemistry textbook for medical students.
He was a member of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Protein Society, The Research Society of Alcoholism and The International Society of Biomedical Research on Alcoholism.
He was an active member of Temple Israel, serving on the board of directors for many years and as president for four years. He also served on the Midwest Board of the Union of Reform Judaism.
He enjoyed baking and teaching others to bake breads. He was an avid woodturner and a member of American Association of Woodturners and Central Indiana Chapter of American Association of Woodturners.
Surviving are his wife, children, Suzanna Stoebick (husband: Rob) and Alex Weiner (wife: Dori Rubin), and brother Alan (wife: Phyllis).
Also surviving are grandchildren, Ryan and Gabrielle Stoebick and Rebecca Weiner. He was preceded in death by his brother, Lawrence.
From the time he was diagnosed with prostate cancer in January, 1993 until a relatively short time ago he lived well and productively. Hank received the standard therapies for the disease and also participated in many clinical trials designed with the goal of developing more effective treatments for prostate cancer.
In lieu of flowers, please send memorials to: Temple Israel, West Lafayette; Biochemistry Dept., Purdue University or Purdue Center for Cancer Research. Services are Sunday Oct. 31, 2010, at 1 p.m. at Temple Israel, 620 Cumberland Ave. West Lafayette, IN 47906 www.soller-baker.com