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Drew was born on June 3, 1904 in Washington, D.C. Charles Drew excelled in academics and sports during his graduate studies at Amherst College in Massachusetts. Charles Drew was also a honor student at McGill University Medical School in Montreal, where he specialized in physiological anatomy. Charles Drew researched blood plasma and transfusions in New York City, where he became a Doctor of Medical Science â the first African-American to do so at Columbia University. There, he made his discoveries relating to the preservation of blood.
During his lifetime Charles Drew was awarded the Spingarn Medal from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1944 for his work on blood plasma. He was also the first black to be appointed an examiner by the American Board of Surgery.