David Gutmann: Making science work for patients

摘要

Thank goodness for academic counsellors. When David Gutmann went to see one as a 20-year-old student, he was contemplating dropping out of the University of Michigan Medical School (Ann Arbor, Ml) because he found the didactic lectures dry and boring. Luckily, the counsellor persuaded him to pursue his research interests simultaneously. Gutmann enrolled in a postgraduate degree programme in human genetics, and the rest, as we say, is history: he went on to become one of the world's leading researchers and clinical experts in neurofibromatosis (NF).