M. Judah Folkman (1933-2008)

摘要

Judah Folkman often said "Science goes where you imagine it." Few imagined more boldly or pushed science further than he did. As director of the Vascular Biology Program and a former surgeon-in-chief at the Children's Hospital Boston in Massachusetts, Folkman brought both a scientist's and a surgeons perspectives to finding solutions to medical problems. His research observation that some tumours grow whereas others remain dormant, fused with his clinical experience in removing hot, bloody malignancies, produced a profound insight - that the recruitment of a dedicated blood supply, a process known as angiogenesis, is essential to tumour growth.