[1] His discoveries were instrumental to the creation of medications to treat inflammatory disorders including as arthritis, psoriasis, and various skin allergies.
[1] National Academies Press called him "an outstanding organic chemist who made very special contributions to the field of medicine".
[3] Professor Elias James Corey (Nobel laureate, 1990) had this to say of Fried: "He was an outstanding, highly creative scientist who straddled both the worlds of pharmaceutical research and academic science.
[3] Bristol-Myers Squibb and the University of Chicago launched in 1990 the first of a series of annual Josef Fried Symposia of Bioorganic Chemistry.
[1] In 1963 Fried was appointed professor at the Ben May Laboratory for Cancer Research at the University of Chicago.