Robert W. Grady

Kinnelon, NJ – Dr. Robert W. Grady, of Kinnelon, died Tuesday, September 6, 2016 at his home. He was 74.

Born in Boston on November 13, 1941, a son of the late Robert B. and Dorothy M. (Hatch) Grady, he was raised and educated in Waltham. He graduated from Waltham High School in 1959 and Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island in 1963. He went on to earn his doctorate in organic chemistry from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis in 1971.

Dr. Grady built a distinguished career first at Rockefeller University and then for more than three decades as Associate Research Professor of Pharmacology in Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine, both in New York City. His pioneering work has significantly contributed to the improved and current management of thousands of patients with thalassemia worldwide and to a better understanding of iron metabolism. Science was his passion. He applied his intellectual curiosity to all aspects of his life and his love for family, traveling, politics, and the environment.

The husband of the late Margaret A. (Meyer) Grady, he leaves his children, Robert T. Grady of Waltham, Meredith A. Grady of Rockville, Maryland and Seana L. Pratt and her husband, Gilbert E. Pratt, of Fort Collins, Colorado; his grandchildren, Lauren Elisabeth and Ryan Meyer Pratt and Nuala Meghan Grady and his brothers, Thomas J. Grady, M.D. and his wife, Barbara, and Paul R. Grady all of Waltham.

Family and friends will honor and remember Bob's life by gathering for calling hours in The Joyce Funeral Home, 245 Main Street (Rte. 20), Waltham on Thursday, September 15th from 5 to 8 p.m. and again at 9 a.m. on Friday morning before leaving in procession to Sacred Heart Church, 311 River Street, Waltham where his Funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Burial will follow in Calvary Cemetery, Waltham.

Memorial donations in Dr. Grady's name to support patient care and services for children with thalassemia who are treated at the Division of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center can be made online to the Children's Cancer & Blood Foundation at https://ccbf.networkforgood.com/.