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Genetic Basis of Disease Specificity of Nondefective Friend Murine

1989; Wiley; Volume: 567; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/j.1749-6632.1989.tb16455.x

1749-6632

Leukemia Virus, Nancy Hopkins,

Signaling Pathways in Disease

I met Charlotte Friend just once. Sometimes it's intimidating to finally meet a scientist one has respected greatly from afar. Perhaps it's the fear that such a person will have no interest in you, or, worse, that he or she will turn out not to be as impressive as the work one has so long admired. Neither was the case with Dr. Friend. In the course of our meeting it was a pleasure to see so clearly and so quickly that Dr. Friend's revolutionary discoveries were no accident but the work of a brilliant and imaginative mind. On the personal level I had no doubt that we would become close colleagues and friends. Here I was wrong. Not long after our meeting I read of Dr. Friend's death in the New York Times. I still regret the loss of the friendship I had anticipated and also the missed opportunity to tell Charlotte Friend how much her courageous and independent life has meant to me.