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Researcher Behind the Drug Gleevec
Science & Tech  (tags: science, research, myeloid leukemia, study, medicine, humans, health, prevention, disease )

Dee
- 21 days ago - nytimes.com
Dr. Brian J. Druker, 54, an oncologist at Oregon Health and Sciences University and a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator, is one of three winners this year of the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award
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Dee C. (503)
Tuesday November 3, 2009, 4:25 pm
often called the “American Nobel Prize.” Dr. Druker shared the honor with Nicholas B. Lydon, a former researcher for Novartis, and Charles L. Sawyers of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, “for the development of molecularly targeted treatments for chronic myeloid leukemia, converting a fatal cancer into a manageable chronic condition.” Here is an edited version of a conversation that took place last month in New York:

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Rhonda Maness (450)
Tuesday November 3, 2009, 7:51 pm
Thanks Dee
 

Chaz Gaily Berlusconi (250)
Wednesday November 4, 2009, 3:54 am
Thannxxx Dee Dee.... we can pay a tribute to these people who work so tirelessly into bringing cures to these dreadful diseases
 
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