- Barbara Boxer
Senate Environment and Public Works Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) speaks at a News conference to release principles for global warming legislation. She says that this moment marks the start of legislative efforts to become energy efficient and create millions of green jobs which will make America a leader. (1:05)
- Michael Good
Professor Michael F. Good was appointed as the Director of the Queensland Institute of Medical Research in April 2000. Prior to then he had been the Director of the Cooperative Research Centre for Vaccine Technology. He graduated from the Queensland University Medical School in 1978. He later undertook further training in medical research at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne.
- Doug Altman
Professor Douglas G. Altman is a British statistician. He is the Founder and Director of Centre for Statistics in Medicine and Cancer Research UK Medical Statistics Group. His varied research interests include the use and abuse of statistics in medical research, studies of prognosis, regression modelling, systematic reviews and meta-analysis, randomised trials, reporting guidelines and studies of medical measurement.
- Patrick Lee
Patrick Lee is a medical researcher and professor. He discovered that reovirus preferentially replicates in Ras transformed cells and is therefore a good candidate for cancer therapy. Dr. Lee holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Alberta. He is currently a faculty member at the University of Calgary.
- Greg Winter
Sir Gregory Winter is a British pioneer of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies. He invented techniques to both humanise (1986) and, later, to fully-humanise, antibodies for therapeutic uses. Before this groundbreaking work antibodies had failed to live up to their potential because they had been derived from mice. In 1989 Winter was a founder of Cambridge Antibody Technology, which was one of the early commercial biotech companies involved in antibody engineering.
- Warren Weaver
Warren Weaver was an American scientist, mathematician, and science administrator. Weaver graduated in 1919 at the University of Wisconsin with degrees in civil engineering and mathematics. He became an assistant professor of mathematics at Throop College (soon to be re-named the California Institute of Technology) before returning to teach mathematics at Wisconsin (1920–32). He was director of the Division of Natural Sciences at the Rockefeller Foundation (1932–55), …
- Thomas Starzl
Thomas Starzl (born March 11, 1926) is an American physician, researcher, and is an expert on organ transplants. He performed the first human liver transplants, and has often been referred to as "the father of modern transplantation."
- Henrietta Lacks
Henrietta Lacks (August 18, 1920 - October 4, 1951) was the involuntary donor of cells from her cancerous tumor, which were cultured by George Otto Gey to create an immortal cell line for medical research. This is now known as the HeLa cell line.
- Lois Pope
Lois Berrodin Pope (born June 7, 1933, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is one of America's leading philanthropists. She is the widow of National Enquirer founder, Generoso Pope Jr. Pope attended Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia, which later presented her with an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree in recognition of her philanthropic work. In 1988, Pope's husband died of a heart attack at the age of 61. About a year after his death, the fiduciary of his estate, …
- Donald S. Fredrickson
Donald Sharp "Don" Fredrickson (August 8, 1924 - June 7, 2002) was an American medical researcher, principally of the lipid and cholesterol metabolism, and director of National Institutes of Health and subsequently the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
- Harvey J. Alter
Harvey J. Alter, chief of the infectious disease section in the department of transfusion medicine at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), …
- John Darsee
John Darsee (born c. 1948) was a medical researcher with an impressive list of publications in reputable scientific journals but was found to have fabricated data for his publications. Darsee had an excellent reputation as a student and medical researcher. He worked at Emory University from 1974 to 1979. He then moved to Harvard University, where he worked as research fellow at the Cardiac Research Laboratory.
- Michael Woodruff
Sir Michael Francis Addison Woodruff FRS (3 April 1911 - 10 March 2001) was an English surgeon and scientist principally remembered for his research into organ transplantation. Though born in London, Woodruff spent his youth in Australia, where he earned degrees in electrical engineering and medicine. Having completed his studies shortly after the outbreak of World War II, he joined the Australian Army Medical Corps, …
- Ludwik Hirszfeld
Ludwik Hirszfeld (August 51884 - March 71954) was a Polish microbiologist and a serologist. He is considered one of the co-discoverers of the inheritance of ABO blood type. He established a laboratory of experimental medicine at the State Institute of Hygiene in Poland shortly after the first World War. In 1946, he published his autobiography, "The Story of One Life."
- Jon Sudbø
Jon Sudbø is a dentist and formerly a consultant oncologist and medical researcher at The Radium Hospital in Oslo, Norway. Having earlier been licenced as a dentist and a physician, he earned a doctorate (dr. med.) in 2001. Until February 2006 he was an associate Professor at the University of Oslo. In November, 2006 his license to practice medicine and dentistry were revoked, and on December 19, 2006, …
- Pablo Rubinstein
During the 1980s, Pablo Rubinstein, M.D. pioneered the freezing of umbilical cord blood or placental blood cells to use for unrelated donors to treat diseases like Leukemia and genetic diseases such as Taysachs and Sickle Cell Anemia. He pioneered and established an international cord blood banking system and has played a leading role in international cord blood transplantation
- Harold Percival Himsworth
Sir Harold Percival (Harry) Himsworth (19 May 1905 - 1 November 1993) was a British scientist, best known for his medical research on diabetes mellitus.
- Edward Bove
Edward Bove is a Professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Michigan School of Medicine, Michigan, United States. Dr. Bove is also the Head of the Section of Cardiac Surgery, the Director of the Division of Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery, and the Co-Director of the Michigan Congenital Heart Center at the University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He is well known for his contributions to the repair of congenital heart defects, …
- Hugh H. Young
Hugh Hampton Young, MD was an American surgeon, urologist, and medical researcher. Born in San Antonio, Texas on September 18 1870, he graduated from the University of Virginia in 1891 after acquiring BA, MA, and MD degrees in just four years. As of 1895 he began teaching at Johns Hopkins Institute and by 1897 he was the head of their urology department, at an age of just 27. He would remain there for most of his life, until 1940.
- William H. Dobelle
William H. Dobelle (October 24, 1941 - October 5, 2004) was a biomedical researcher who developed advanced technologies that restored limited sight to blind patients. At the age of 13 Dobelle designed improvements for the artificial hip for which he received patents. He started college the following year. He earned his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in biophysics at Johns Hopkins University where he worked on the development of medical tests.
- Joachim Carvallo
Joachim Carvallo was a Spanish-born doctor and medical researcher in France best known as the owner who restored Château de Villandry and the creator of its spectacular gardens. Joachim Carvallo emigrated to Paris in 1893 to further his studies. While working with a medical research team he met and married in 1899 a medical intern named Ann Coleman, an American from Lebanon, Pennsylvania.
- Roy L. Dennis
Roy L. "Rocky" Dennis (1961-1978) was an American boy afflicted with craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, an extremely rare, disfiguring, sclerotic bone disorder. The condition usually results in neurological disorders and death during childhood; Rocky died at the age of 16. Following Rocky's death, his family donated his body to the University of California, Los Angeles for medical research.
- Ioan Cantacuzino
Ioan C. Cantacuzino or Ion Cantacuzino (November 25, 1863-January 14, 1934) was a renowned Romanian physician and bacteriologist, a professor at the Romanian School of Medicine and Pharmacy and a member of the Romanian Academy. He was the founder of the fields of microbiology and experimental medicine in Romania, and creator of the Ioan Cantacuzino Institute.
- George Whipple
George Hoyt Whipple (August 28, 1878 - February 1, 1976) was an American physician, biomedical researcher, and medical school educator and administrator. Whipple shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934 with George Richards Minot and William Parry Murphy "for their discoveries concerning liver therapy in cases of anemia." Whipple was born to Ashley Cooper Whipple and Frances Anna Hoyt in Ashland, New Hampshire. He was the son and grandson of physicians.
- Bruce Robinson
Born in Perth in 1950, Professor Bruce Robinson has dedicated his life to medical education, clinical research and disaster medicine support, whilst managing to maintain a healthy and balanced family life. He is the author of 'Fathering in the Fast Lane' and other inspirational books relating to fatherhood.
- Natalie Wells
I love the smell of fresh cut grass. I can crochet a mean scarf. I like my coffee black and beer dark. I like dive bars and theme parties with my friends. I am soo happy with life right now. AIM = Citygurl6. I dont use Friendster much any more but you can find me at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/citygurl6;.
- Chris Williams
i've been helping to find the cure for brain cancer, but it's time to try something new. marine biology is the next step toward edification. I'm a subGenius....too lazy to actually be a genius. Shit my beer is getting warm. Right now I'm listening to clap your hands and say yeah, but switched to Abbey Road. I'm in love with the human condition. I know where I belong. I'm happy without medication...haha.
- Diana Corrales
MY ALL TIME FAVORITE SONG VIDEO!! (BELOW)
- Justin Franz
Skinny German Boy who likes to have fun out dancing or catching a show as well as chillin' at home with my cats watching flicks or playing my xbox.
- Kyra
K.
- Rachel
Zero fashion sense (unlike stylish Manish), not-a-morning-.
- Courtney Goodman
I have one semester of school left.....Yippee.....I'm well on my way to being the BEST crime busting female to ever walk the earth (just kidding) anyway there really isn't much to say, everything is going great.
- Mary
i'm a smarty pants, a true character, and a bit of a super hero if i do say so myself. and i also like to eat anything anytime anyplace. i can eat my weight in anything, especially chocolate anythings. and i usually eat more than men who are twice or even three times my size.
- Michael Ducey
I'm an easy going, down-to-earth guy. I'm socially & politically on the liberal side of things. I use the term "honky" way too often and out of context because I find it hilarious (ask Diana). I work in a "professional" field/environment despite my tendency toward the silly/random, but I enjoy what I do.
- Jeff
A true pisces, pierced and inked (wanting more), and a friend to all...brown hair, big blue eyes, sincere, enjoys some levels of fettish, previously extra crispy via gasoline (healed quite well though), spontaneous and loveable ;)
- Arnold
- Matt Brown
Just call me Brownie.
- Michael
ME, well I guess I'm a bit outspoken and blunt, flirty and.
- Nicole
Groovy.
- Claudia Duran
i am tiny- hence the sorority nickname "runt" but do not.