Anthony Cerami’s story and that of the evolution of translation are intimately entwined: the contours of Cerami’s career shaped by developments in translation, and in exchange, the field itself molded by Cerami’s work. To understand one is to understand the other. By examining the life of this often overlooked biochemist it is possible to intimately focus on the ideas and thought processes of a scientist who has helped to define the great acceleration in translational research over the past half century – research that, knowingly or otherwise, has most likely affected the life of almost everyone on the planet. …mehr
Anthony Cerami’s story and that of the evolution of translation are intimately entwined: the contours of Cerami’s career shaped by developments in translation, and in exchange, the field itself molded by Cerami’s work. To understand one is to understand the other. By examining the life of this often overlooked biochemist it is possible to intimately focus on the ideas and thought processes of a scientist who has helped to define the great acceleration in translational research over the past half century – research that, knowingly or otherwise, has most likely affected the life of almost everyone on the planet. Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
CONRAD KEATING is the Writer-in-Residence and Visiting Professor at the School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin. Keating had previously been the Writer-in-Residence at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at the University of Oxford. His most recent publication is the widely acclaimed medical biography Kenneth Warren and the Great Neglected Diseases of Mankind Program: The Transformation of Geographical Medicine in the US and Beyond. In 2013 Keating curated the exhibition '800 Years of Oxford Innovation: Great Medical Discoveries' for the Bodleian Library and wrote the accompanying book Great Medical Discoveries: An Oxford Story. Keating's other major work in the history of medicine is Smoking Kills: The Revolutionary Life of Richard Doll. Keating also has an Art of Medicine essay series on the history of randomized controlled trials in The Lancet; in April 2020 his article 'A history of the RTS,S Malaria Vaccine' was published as the 3rd essay in this ten-part series.
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Foreword Introduction 1. Hard Work 2. The Rockefeller Effect 3. The Shaping of a Scientific Mind 4. The Rockefeller University and the Broad Horizon 5. Diabetes: The Creation of the Hemoglobin A1c Test 6. Glucose, Aging, and the Cross-linking of Biology and Business 7. The Conceptual Breakthrough 8. Cachectin-Tumour Necrosis Factor 9. Leaving The Rockefeller University: The End of the Dream 10. Philanthropy Goes Awry 11. Translation in Transition 12. Anti-TNF Therapy: Changing the Pharmaceutical Landscape 13. Taking on Big Pharma Acknowledgments Notes Index
Foreword Introduction 1. Hard Work 2. The Rockefeller Effect 3. The Shaping of a Scientific Mind 4. The Rockefeller University and the Broad Horizon 5. Diabetes: The Creation of the Hemoglobin A1c Test 6. Glucose, Aging, and the Cross-linking of Biology and Business 7. The Conceptual Breakthrough 8. Cachectin-Tumour Necrosis Factor 9. Leaving The Rockefeller University: The End of the Dream 10. Philanthropy Goes Awry 11. Translation in Transition 12. Anti-TNF Therapy: Changing the Pharmaceutical Landscape 13. Taking on Big Pharma Acknowledgments Notes Index
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