PROFESSOR ANTHONY J. SINSKEY

SINSKEY, MIT Professor Anthony J. Passed away on February 12. Sinskey is well known in the biopharmaceutical industry and has been a Scientific Co-founder of several biotechnology companies, including Genzyme Corporation, Metabolix, Merrimack Pharmaceuticals, and Tepha. Sinskey has given more than 350 presentations at U.S. and International scientific meetings and congresses. He has received 54 issued patents, has made more than 30 invention disclosures and has published more than 380 scientific papers in leading peer-reviewed journals for biology, metabolic engineering, and biopolymer engineering. Sinskey has been known as a smart, committed and caring intellect and entrepreneur in academia and industry for many years. He has two brothers, Terry Sinskey (deceased in 1975) and Timothy Sinskey (lives in Emory Texas with his wife Marilyn) and a sister Christine Sinskey Braudis (lives in Columbia Missouri with her husband Raymond). His late wife, Chokyun Rha was the very first tenured Asian female faculty at MIT. His two sons also attended MIT - Tong-ik Lee Sinskey '79, SM '80 and Taeminn Song MBA '95. In addition to his two sons, Sinskey is also survived by his daughter-in-law Hyunmee Elaine Song, five grandchildren and two great-grandsons (Teo and Geno). The family will receive visitors on Friday, February 21 from 4 pm to 8 pm and Saturday, February 22 from 10 am to 2 pm in the J.S. Waterman Langone Chapel, 580 Commercial Street, BOSTON. Complimentary valet parking attendants at front door on both days. For online condolences and or directions, please visit: www.watermanboston.com Gifts in Sinskey's memory can be made to the ChoKyun Rha (1962) and Anthony J Sinskey (1967) Fund. https://giving.mit.edu/chokyun-rha 617-536-4110