BUTCHER LAB - Key Persons
Endocrinologist Aaron Hsueh discovers obestatin, a hormone that supresses appetite and may lead to treatments for obesity.
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- Professor, Department of Immunology, University of Maastricht, the Netherlands
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- Research Assistant, Jagiellonian University, Poland
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- Zenyaku Kogyo Co., Ltd. Research Center, Tokyo, Japan
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- Scientist II, Atreca, Redwood City, California
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- Scientist, Arresto Biosciences, Palo Alto, California
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- Research Scientist, Institute of Immunology and Transfusion Medicine, University of Luebeck, Germany
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- Professor, University of Leicester
Pharmacologist Avram Goldstein discovers a chemical in the human brain that could lead to the development of powerful painkillers with fewer undesirable side effects.
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- Research Associate, James a. Baker Institute for Animal Health, Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine, Ithaca, New York
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- Assistant Professor, Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Principal Investigator / Senior Scientist, Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research, Palo Alto, CA
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- Professor for Immunobiology, Theodor - Kocher Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland
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- Professor of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Istituto Di Patologia, University of Verona, Italy
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- Senior Scientist, Crucell Vaccine Institute, Janssen
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- Staff Research Scientist, Bayer Healthcare, San Francisco, California
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- Scientist II, Atreca, Inc., Redwood City, California
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- Associate Professor of Immunology, Department of Pathobiology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
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- Postdoctoral Associate, Material Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California
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- Postdoctoral Fellow, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London, UK
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- Assistant Professor, Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle, Washington
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- Associate Director - Hybridoma, PDL BioPharma, Redwood City, California
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- PRESIDENT & CEO / STANFORD HEALTH CARE
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- Professor, Medicine, Oregon Health Sciences Center, Portland, Oregon
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- Staff Scientist, Cytometrics, San Diego, California
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- Dean
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- DEAN, STANFORD SCHOOL of MEDICINE
- Professor for the Dean
- Vice Dean Linda M. Boxer
Dean Minor is a leading physician, basic scientist and educator.
Lloyd B. Minor, MD, is a scientist, surgeon, and academic leader. He is the Carl and Elizabeth Naumann Dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine, a position he has held since December 2012. He also is a professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and a professor of Bioengineering and of Neurobiology, by courtesy, at Stanford University.
As dean, Dr. Minor plays an integral role in setting strategy for the clinical enterprise of Stanford Medicine, an academic medical center that includes the Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford Health Care, and Stanford Medicine Children's Health. With his leadership, Stanford Medicine leads the biomedical revolution in Precision Health. His book, "Discovering Precision Health," describes this shift to more preventive, personalized health care and highlights how biomedical advances are dramatically improving our ability to treat and cure complex diseases. In 2021, Dr. Minor articulated and began realizing a bold vision to transform the future of life sciences at Stanford University and beyond - a multi-decade journey enabled by Precision Health.
Before Stanford, Dr. Minor was provost and senior vice president for academic affairs of Johns Hopkins University. Prior to this appointment in 2009, Dr. Minor served as the Andelot Professor and director (chair) of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and otolaryngologist-in-chief of The Johns Hopkins Hospital.
With more than 160 published articles and chapters, Dr. Minor is an expert in balance and inner ear disorders perhaps best known for discovering superior canal dehiscence syndrome, a debilitating disorder characterized by sound- or pressure-induced dizziness. He subsequently developed a surgical procedure that corrects the problem and alleviates symptoms.
In 2012, Dr. Minor was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
Carl and Elizabeth Naumann Professor for the Dean of the School of Medicine, Professor of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery, and by courtesy, of Neurobiology & Bioengineering
Lloyd B. Minor, MD, is a scientist, surgeon, and academic leader. He is the Carl and Elizabeth Naumann Dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine, a position he has held since December 2012. He also is a professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and a professor of Bioengineering and of Neurobiology, by courtesy, at Stanford University.
As dean, Dr. Minor plays an integral role in setting strategy for the clinical enterprise of Stanford Medicine, an academic medical center that includes the Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford Health Care, and Stanford Medicine Children's Health. He oversees the quality of Stanford Medicine's physicians on the faculty and in the growing clinical networks and physician practices.
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Minor reacted quickly to implement protocols to ensure the safety of patients and of the Stanford Medicine community. He emphasized open communication, transparency, and accountability as he and the leadership team responded to the unprecedented challenges that affected every facet of the enterprise's activities.
With Dr. Minor's leadership, Stanford Medicine is leading the biomedical revolution through Precision Health. Empowering people to lead healthy lives, Precision Health is a fundamental shift to more proactive and personalized health care that predicts and prevents disease before it strikes and cures it decisively if it does. His book, "Discovering Precision Health: Predict, Prevent, and Cure to Advance Health and Well-Being," highlights how biomedical advances are dramatically improving our ability to treat and cure complex diseases.
Dr. Minor also spearheaded the creation of an Integrated Strategic Plan (ISP) that reaffirms Stanford Medicine's Precision Health vision while articulating a new commitment to be Human Centered and Discovery Led. An unprecedented roadmap, the ISP aligns Stanford Medicine's three entities, informs how each will develop strategies and make decisions, and is activating more than two dozen high-impact initiatives across Stanford Medicine.
In 2021, Dr. Minor articulated and began realizing a bold vision for transforming the future of life sciences at Stanford University, in the Bay Area, and beyond. This multi-decade journey will leverage the region's unique strengths in information sciences, technology, and biology and biomedicine to establish a biomedical innovation hub that through collaboration enhances fundamental understanding of biology and translates promising discoveries into transformative leaps that promote human and planetary well-being.
Dr. Minor has long provided significant support for basic science research and for clinical and translational research at Stanford. Through bold initiatives in medical education and increased support for MD and PhD students, Dr. Minor is committed to inspiring and training future leaders. He also has increased student financial aid and expanded faculty leadership opportunities.
Among other accomplishments Dr. Minor has led the development and implementation of an innovative model for cancer research and patient care delivery at Stanford Medicine and has launched an initiative in biomedical data science to harness the power of big data and create a learning health care system.
Before Stanford, Dr. Minor was provost and senior vice president for academic affairs of The Johns Hopkins University. As provost, Dr. Minor launched many university-wide initiatives such as the Gateway Sciences Initiative to support pedagogical innovation, and the Doctor of Philosophy Board to promote excellence in PhD education. He worked with others around the university and health system to coordinate the Individualized Health Initiative, which aimed to use genetic information to transform health care.
Prior to his appointment as provost in 2009, Dr. Minor was the Andelot Professor and director (chair) of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and otolaryngologist-in-chief of The Johns Hopkins Hospital. During his six-year tenure, he expanded annual research funding by more than half and increased clinical activity by more than 30 percent, while strengthening teaching efforts and student training.
With more than 160 published articles and chapters, Dr. Minor is an expert in balance and inner ear disorders. Through neurophysiological investigations of eye movements and neuronal pathways, his work has identified adaptive mechanisms responsible for compensation to vestibular injury in a model system for studies of motor learning (the vestibulo-ocular reflex). The synergies between this basic research and clinical studies have led to improved methods for the diagnosis and treatment of balance disorders. In recognition of his work in refining a treatment for Ménière's disease, Dr. Minor received the Prosper Ménière Society's gold medal in 2010.
In the medical community, Dr. Minor is perhaps best known for his discovery of superior canal dehiscence syndrome, a debilitating disorder characterized by sound- or pressure-induced dizziness. In 1998, Dr. Minor and colleagues published a description of the clinical manifestations of the syndrome and related its cause to an opening (dehiscence) in the bone covering the superior canal. He subsequently developed a surgical procedure that corrects the problem and alleviates symptoms.
Dr. Minor received his bachelor's and medical degrees from Brown University. He trained at Duke University Medical Center and the University of Chicago Medical Center and completed a research fellowship at the University of Chicago and a clinical fellowship at The Otology Group and The EAR Foundation in Nashville, Tennessee.
In 2012, Dr. Minor was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
As part of the Stanford Executive Briefing series, Minor shares his thoughts on authentic leadership and offers five leadership principles.
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- Research Scientist, Merck, Palo Alto, California
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- Staff Scientist, Proctor & Gamble Co., Cincinnati, Ohio
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- Physician, Yale Clinics, West Hartford, Connecticut
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- Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, BioSeek Inc., Burlingame, California
Sleep researcher Emmanuel Mignot identifies the defective gene that causes narcolepsy, a disabling sleep disorder affecting humans and animals.
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- VP of Biology, BioSeek Inc., Burlingame, California
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- Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
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- Pathologist
- Principal Investigator
- Klaus Bensch Professor of Pathology
Pathologist Eugene Butcher discovers a receptor that guides white blood cells into the peripheral lymph nodes.
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- Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manitoba, Canada
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- Associate Professor, Department of Histology, State University of Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Research Scientist, Istituto Di Patologia, University of Verona, Italy
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- Co - Trained With I. L.Weissman ) Professor, Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Free University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Pathologist Gerald Crabtree develops techniques that allow scientists to toggle genes on and off in animal models.
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- Research Scientist, Laboratory of Immunology, Department of Experimental Medicine and Pathology, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
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- Life Science Lab Animal Research Manager
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- Assistant Professor, Department of Pathobiology, Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- LIIPAT, Institute of Pathology, Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway
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- Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, Stanford University, Stanford, California
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- Scientist II, Second Genome, San Fransico, CA
Immunologist Hugh McDevitt discovers regulatory genes believed to control the body's reponses to foreign proteins, which suggests that people may have predictable susceptibility to certain diseases.
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- Principal Investigator, Scientist, Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research, Palo Alto, CA
Pathologist Irving Weissman isolates a rare mouse cell, known as the hematopoetic stem cell, which gives rise to all the cells of the blood and immune systems.
Pathologist Irving Weissman identifies the stem cell that gives rise to bladder cancer, and also shows how the cell uses the "don't-eat-me" signal, a molecule known as CD47, to evade the body's defenses.
Pathologist Irving Weissman shows that a single antibody, which counters the effect of the CD47 molecule, shrinks a variety of human tumors transplanted into mice.
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- Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Turku, Finland
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- Assistant Professor of Pathology, Harvard University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Assistant Professor / Director of Hematology, Pathology Lab / HLA Lab, University of California, Irvine, California
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- Professor, Department of Pathology, Stanford University, Stanford, California
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- Managing Director, Genofi, San Clemente, CA
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- Research Scientist, Bayer Corporation, Berkeley, California
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- National University Medical Institutes, Clinical Research Centre, Singapore
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- Professor of Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
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- Peter Wood Lead the First Large Clinical Investigation That Shows Lowering Cholesterol Levels Prevents Heart Disease
John Farquhar and Peter Wood lead the first large clinical investigation that shows lowering cholesterol levels prevents heart disease.
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- Assistant Professor, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
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- Assistant Professor, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
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- Lecturer, Department of Biological Sciences, San José State University
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- Klaus Bensch Professor of Pathology
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- Research Associate, Stanford Universty, Stanford, CA
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- Associate Adjunct Professor, Department of Anatomy, Physiology, and Cell Biology, University of California, Davis, California
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- Professor and Director, Oregon Primate Vaccine Research Center, Portland, Oregon
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- Senior Scientist, Merck, California
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- Industry Scientist, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Biosample Operations Manager at Genentech, San Francisco, California
Pathologist Marius Wernig turns mouse skin cells into cells that insulate neurons with the application of just three genes.
Immunologist Mark Davis characterizes the T-cell receptor, believed to regulate the body's response to infectious agents and cancerous diseases.
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- Professor, Department of Veterinary Molecular Biology, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana
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- Scientist, Genentech, San Francisco, California
Mary Gohlke receives the world's first combined heart and lung transplant in a landmark operation led by surgeon Bruce Reitz.
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- Executive Assistant to Dean Lloyd Minor, MD, Office of the Dean, Chief of Staff
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- Staff Scientist, Department of Microbiology, University of California, Los Angeles, California
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- Department of Mucosal Immunology, Research Institute for Microbial Disease, Osaka University, Japan
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- Vice President of Research, Jounce Therapeutics, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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- Senior Scientist, Roche, Switzerland
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- Senior Scientist, Biology - Discovery, Merck & Co. Experimental and Translational Pathology, Palo Alto, California
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- Lab Manager
- Research Associate, Palo Alto Research Institute for Research & Education, Palo Alto, CA
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- Staff Physician, Oakland Children 's Hospital, Oakland, California
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- Peter Wood Lead the First Large Clinical Investigation That Shows Lowering Cholesterol Levels Prevents Heart Disease
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- Associate Professor, Oregon Health Sciences Center, Portland, Oregon
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- Director - Partner Solutions, Coremetrics Inc., San Mateo, California
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- Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan
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- Principal, Alta Partners, San Francisco, California
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- Executive Vice President, Chief Scientific Officer, Ligocyte Pharmaceuticals, Bozeman, Montana
Surgeon Roy Cohn leads the first human kidney transplant operation on the West Coast.
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- Professor, Max - Planck Institute, Institut Für Experimental Medizin, University of Nurnberg / Erlangen, Germany
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- Assistant Professor, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Radiologist Sanjiv Gambhir develops a new type of imaging system that can illuminate tumors in living subjects with a precision of nearly one-trillionth of a meter
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- Associate Professor of Pathology, Stanford University, Stanford, California
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- Research Scientist, INCOR, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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- Professor and Chair - Department of Immunology, University of Turku, Finland Member, Finnish Academy of Sciences
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- Takeda Chemical Industries, Ltd., Osaka, Japan
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- Chairman and Professor, Department of Pathology, Okayama University, Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry, Okayama, Japan
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- Senior Research Associate, Tokushima Bunri University, Japan
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- Associate Senior Researcher, Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
- Research Scientist, Sankyo Corporation, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
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- Senior Director - Inflammation, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Pediatrician Thomas Robinson finds that children who curtailed their television time gained significantly less body fat than those who didn't .
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- Instructor, Department of Gastroenterology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
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- Scientist, Genentech, South San Francisco, California
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- Mallinckrodt Professor of Immunopathology, the Center for Blood Research - Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Scientist, Switch - Biotech, Munich, Germany
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- President, Calistoga Pharmaceuticals, Seattle, Washington
Researcher William Haskell shows that intensive lifestyle changes and prevention/treatment programs can reduce cardiac events and slow the progression of atherosclerosis in coronary arteries.
Researcher William S. Robinson isolates the genetic blueprint of a virus that causes hepatitis B and a common form of liver cancer.
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- Group Leader, Institute of Neurology, Edinger Institute, Frankfurt, Germany