Danica Dabich, Ph.D., professor emeritus of biochemistry at the Wayne State University School of Medicine, died June 20, 2020. She was 89.

She joined the School of Medicine as a research associate in 1961, and became an assistant professor in 1966. She was promoted to associate professor in 1970.

A member of the American Society of Biological Chemistry & Molecular Biology and the American Chemical Society, Dr. Dabich received her bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from the University of Michigan in 1952 and a master’s degree from Ohio State University in 1955. She earned a doctoral degree from the University of Illinois in 1960.

She began her career as an analytical chemist at Phillips Petroleum Co. in 1952, and then in 1955 accepted a position as a research assistant at the E.B. Ford Research Institute for Medical Research, where she worked until 1956. She served as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Freiburg in Germany from 1960 to 1961.

She is survived by her sister, Lyubica Dabich, and brother, Sam Dabich.

The family held a private service at Evergreen Cemetery.