BBC News – Nobel winner Ralph Steinman’s quest to cure cancer – including his own
By Brett Norman 10/4/2011
“…Ralph Steinman died days before it was announced that he was to share the Nobel Prize for Medicine. His work had been part of an unorthodox experiment to save his life…”
PERSONAL NOTE: I got my PhD in Ralph’s lab from 1990-95. He was my thesis advisor and teacher. I feel incredibly lucky. BTW: Ralph was regarded as a crackpot by the most immunologists for a few decades, but wound up getting recognized the Nobel.
During his long, struggling ‘crackpot period’, he was faithfully supported by his own mentor and ‘scientific father’, Zan Cohn. That’s the way it is in science: it’s a heritage passed from generation to generation. May we all have faith that the ideals we share will be handed down in a similar way….
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