Vogelstein

Vogelstein and others found that this gene is mutated that is, inactivated in about half of all human cancers.

SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

In 1989 Bert Vogelstein, working at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, did important spade work to show what p53 does in the body to make it play such a central role in cancer.

SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

Vogelstein is the most cited of all scientists on Earth, dead or alive.

SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

After the talk, Vogelstein ushered me into his office.

SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

Vogelstein found that it does everything it can to prevent cancer.

SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

In a joint project with Tibor Antal and Ivana Bozic, a mathematician from Serbia, I am now collaborating with Bert Vogelstein to understand how mutations arise in growing populations of cancer cells to drive the overall progression of disease.

SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

I was even more surprised when, a little later, someone told me that “everyone wants to see Vogelstein” and that he was usually much too busy to oblige.

SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

In mid-October, Johns Hopkins University researchers Robert Armiger and Jacob Vogelstein traveled to RP 2009 partner Duke University, in Durham, N.C., to test the system on its target demographic, in this case Iraq veteran Jon Kuniholm.

Boing Boing 2008

“They hop along for the ride,” as Vogelstein put it.

The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010

In 1988, using human specimens, a physician-scientist named Bert Vogelstein at Johns Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore set out to describe the number of genetic changes required to initiate cancer.

The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010