Sidney Farber

Sidney Farber

male, deceased (1973)
Harvard Medical School alumni, dana-farber cancer institute, Pathologist, American, remission, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Sidney Farber (1903-1973) was a pediatric pathologist. He was born in 1903 in Buffalo, N.Y., the third oldest of a family of 14 children. He was a...
Mike Andrews

Mike Andrews

male, 66 years old
Chicago White Sox player, from California, dana-farber cancer institute, second baseman, American League All-Star, Major League Baseball All-Star Game
Michael Jay Andrews (born July 9, 1943 in Los Angeles, California) is a former second baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the Boston...
Stanley J. Korsmeyer

Stanley J. Korsmeyer

male, deceased (2005)
Washington University, american philosophical society, Harvard, American, howard hughes medical institute, bcl-2…cancer, dana-farber cancer institute, National Cancer Institute, Institute of Medicine
Dr. Stanley J. Korsmeyer (1951 - March 31, 2005) was an American oncologist. Through his studies of apoptosis, Korsmeyer helped develop the...
Jerome Groopman

Jerome Groopman

male
immunodeficient, dana-farber cancer institute, beth israel deaconess medical center, cancer, Massachusetts General Hospital, Doctor of Medicine…breast cancer, Heart Lung Blood Institute
Jerome Groopman has been a staff writer in medicine and biology for "The New Yorker" since 1998. He is also the Dina and Raphael Recanati Chair of...

Ezekiel J. Emanuel

male (Boston, Massachusetts, United States)
American, National Institutes of Health, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, bioethics, physician, Dept. of Clinical Bioethics…Institute of Medicine, national institute of health, dana-farber cancer institute, md anderson cancer center
Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel is a noted NIH bioethicist, and a leading opponent of state-assisted suicide. Currently Emanuel is Director of the Clinical...
Ruth Sager

Ruth Sager

female, deceased (1997)
Bladder cancer death, American, University of Chicago alumni, Columbia University alumni, Rutgers University alumni, maize…bladder cancer, dana-farber cancer institute, Rockefeller Institute
Ruth Sager (February 7, 1918 - March 29, 1997) was an eminent American geneticist. Sager enjoyed two scientic careers. Her first was in the 1950s...
Sumner Redstone

Sumner Redstone

male, 86 years old (New York, New York, United States)
American military personnel of World War II, Jewish, American mass media owner, Jewish person, media executive, national amusements…Cancer Research Foundation, dana-farber cancer institute, danafarbercancerinstitute
Sumner Murray Redstone (born Sumner Murray Rothstein on May 27 1923 in Boston, Massachusetts) is majority owner and Chairman of the Board of the...
Dan Shaughnessy

Dan Shaughnessy

male
boston globe, Newton, sportswriter, New York Yankees, METCO, Jimmy Fund…dana-farber cancer institute, Dana-Farber
Dan Shaughnessy is a sports columnist and reporter for "The Boston Globe" as well as a best selling author and television and radio sports...
John Misha Petkevich

John Misha Petkevich

male
Harvard University, World Figure Skating Championships, 1972 Winter Olympics, 1968 Winter Olympics, U.S. Figure Skating Championships, North American Figure Skating Championships…dana-farber cancer institute
John Misha Petkevich is an American former figure skater. He won the 1971 U.S. Figure Skating Championships in men's singles and the North American...
Jean R. Yawkey

Jean R. Yawkey

female, deceased (1992)
World War II, baseball executive, Boston Red Sox, Red Cross, From Brooklyn, From Long Island…dana-farber cancer institute
Jean R. Yawkey (January 24 1909 - February 26 1992) was a native of Brooklyn, New York. As Jean Hollander, she grew up in Freeport, Long Island,...