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Michael A. Caligiuri is an American physician scientist focused on oncology and immunology. He is currently the president of the City of Hope National Medical Center and the Deana and Steve Campbell Physician-in-Chief Distinguished Chair. [3] He was elected president of the American Association for Cancer Research, the world's largest cancer ...
Born. Richard Jay Corman. July 22, 1955. Nicholasville, Kentucky, United States. Died. August 23, 2013 (aged 58) Nicholasville, Kentucky, United States. Richard Jay Corman (July 22, 1955 – August 23, 2013) [1] was the founder and owner of R. J. Corman Railroad Group, a Nicholasville, Kentucky -based railroad services and short line operating ...
Baruj Benacerraf (/ b ɪ ˈ n æ s ər ə f /; October 29, 1920 – August 2, 2011) was a Venezuelan-American immunologist, who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the "discovery of the major histocompatibility complex genes which encode cell surface protein molecules important for the immune system's distinction between self and non-self."
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Frederick W. Alt is an American geneticist. He is a member of the Immunology section of the National Academy of Sciences and a Charles A. Janeway Professor of Pediatrics, and Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School. [1] He is the Director of the Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the Boston Children's Hospital. [2]
Stamford Hospital. / 41.05500°N 73.55250°W / 41.05500; -73.55250. Stamford Hospital, residing on the Bennett Medical Center campus, is a 305-bed, not-for-profit hospital and the central facility for Stamford Health. The hospital is regional healthcare facility for Fairfield and Westchester counties, and is the only hospital in the ...
Methotrexate originated in the 1940s when Dr. Sidney Farber at Children's Hospital Boston was testing the effects of folic acid on acute leukemic (severe blood cancer) children. [1] Inspired, he asked Dr. Y. Subbarao, then Director of the Research Division of Lederle Labs (part of American Cyanamid ), to synthesize the anti-folate (methotrexate).
The Jimmy Fund, established in Boston in 1948, is made up of community-based fundraising events and other programs that benefit Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Since 1948, millions of people have given money to the Jimmy Fund to help save lives and reduce the burden of cancer for patients and families worldwide. [2]