Allan Jacob Erslev (* 20 April 1919 in Gentofte, Denmark; "† 12 November 2003 in Haverford, Pennsylvania, the USA) was a Danish physician and physiologist. It is generally considered as one of the fathers of the modern

Erslev studied medicine starting from 1937 at the university of Copenhagen, at which he attained a doctorate also to 1945. After brief activity as a practical physician in Copenhagen it emigrierte 1946 into the USA, where it practiced first in different hospitals in New York. It took up its scientific work at the Sloan Kettering of institutes for CAN cerium Research to Manhattan, before it changed into the early 1950er years to the new Haven hospital to the renomierte Yale University. There it began with classical experiments, which decoded gradually the regularization of the production of Erythrozyten. It carried some years out of its most intensive research at the Thorndike Memorial Laboratory in Boston, where it dozierte at the same time as a fee professor for medicine to the Harvard University. 1959 it was appointed into the Cardeza Foundation for Hematologic Research at the Jefferson Medical college Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, whose management it had 1985 from 1963 to its retirement.

Its scientifically most meaning discovery was 1953 those of the hormone Erythropoetin, whose existence it proved in blood plasma. Erslev could demonstrate by conceivablly simple experimental assemblies that appropriate plasma accelerated the production of red blood corpuscles after infusion into healthy experimental animals. These pioneer work led soon to realizations, which the coupling between the number of red blood corpuscles and the oxygen tension in blood and cell fabric proven and which kidneys located as organs of native EPO production. Erslev recognized already very early the therapeutic possibilities in the medicamentous employment of EPO with the treatment of the renalen but still approximately 30 years should offense, before the Erythropoetin gene could be cloniert and be manufactured EPO in large quantities by recombination techniques biotechnolisch.

Erslev was married almost 50 years with his Mrs. Betsy (born Lewis, "† 1995), with whom he had four children.

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