Betsy Nabel: The pigskin physician
Dr. Elizabeth “Betsy” Nabel is a cardiologist, a vascular biologist, a hospital administrator, and a lifelong football fan. That combination helps explain why the National Football League tapped Nabel...
View ArticleJim Allison: Cancer warrior
For nearly two decades, immunologist Jim Allison pursued an idea his peers thought was crazy: That taking the brakes off the immune system would unleash it to fight cancer. His research helped spur one...
View ArticleBen Carson: A doctor in the White House?
Dr. Ben Carson, who has consistently polled at or near the front of the pack of Republican presidential hopefuls, is also a gifted surgeon. He was chief of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins...
View ArticleNeal Baer: Not just playing doctor on TV
Dr. Neal Baer used to race from the set of “ER” to the emergency room where he was a medical intern. Raised in a family of surgeons, Baer rebelled by going to film school, before deciding in his...
View ArticleDiana Hernández: Promoting better health through better housing
Growing up in public housing in the South Bronx, Diana Hernández learned firsthand about the connection between poverty, living arrangements, and bad health. A sociologist at Columbia University,...
View ArticleNora Volkow: Leading a revolution against drug addiction
Dr. Nora Volkow has seen the ravages of addiction first hand. Growing up in Mexico City, Volkow watched as a beloved uncle battled alcoholism — an experience that, among others, prompted her to devote...
View ArticleReuben Guttman: The lawyer pharma loves to hate
Reuben Guttman wants us all to be concerned about what’s in our medicine cabinets. A Washington lawyer who specializes in prosecuting pharmaceutical fraud, Guttman has gone after Pfizer, Abbott,...
View ArticleWilliam Marshall: The biotech brewer
William Marshall works at the cutting edge of both drug development and beer-making. As president of miRagen Therapeutics, he secured $41 million last month to advance a new type of drug based on...
View ArticleMiriam Nelson: The dietary doyenne
In her policy work for the government, and through initiatives like the StrongWomen program, Miriam “Mim” Nelson has pushed Americans to exercise more, take charge of their health, and to see food as a...
View ArticleLloyd Dean: Promoting health care beyond the hospital
Lloyd Dean grew up with eight siblings and no health insurance. He’s now beginning his 16th year as president and CEO of Dignity Health, a nonprofit that serves patients in 21 states through hundreds...
View ArticleKen van Someren: Looking past human limits
A former world-class kayaker, sports physiologist Ken van Someren now leads a human performance lab outside London for the pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline. After a 20-mile bike ride to the office,...
View ArticleHildegund Ertl: vaccine warrior
Vaccines are a flashpoint in American society. But who actually develops them? For decades, Dr. Hildegund Ertl has been a leader in vaccine research, working on HIV, HPV, rabies, influenza, and other...
View ArticlePaul Knoepfler: Stem cell scientist finds his ‘niche’ in blogging
Stem cell researcher Paul Knoepfler was in his early 40s and recovering from prostate cancer surgery when, in 2009, he decided to start a blog. He began writing about controversial issues like...
View ArticleJonathan Bush: The Dubya cousin who’s digitizing health
Jonathan Bush didn’t set out to transform health care IT. In 1997, the nephew of President No. 41 (and first-cousin of No. 43) cofounded a birthing center. But after struggling to get simply paid for...
View ArticleKathy Giusti: the businesswoman who took on her own cancer
In 1996, Kathy Giusti was a pharmaceutical executive and mother of a toddler, when she was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a rare form of blood cancer. With no proven treatments at the time, Giusti...
View ArticlePeter Grinspoon: the doctor who overcame his opioid addiction
Dr. Peter Grinspoon sees the randomness of opioid addiction every day in his job as a doctor at a Boston-area health clinic. He also saw it in his own life, when, in an unhappy marriage, stressed out...
View ArticleJackie Speier: Jonestown Massacre survivor faces down sexism in science
Jackie Speier was a young congressional staffer looking into human rights abuses by cult leader Jim Jones and his followers, when she and her investigative team were ambushed. Speier was shot five...
View ArticleDerek Lowe: The chemist who puts a human face on drug development
Derek Lowe is perhaps America’s best-known medicinal chemist. That may not sound like much, but in a quiet field where most people go through their entire careers without discovering a marketable drug,...
View ArticleJennifer Gardy: The disease detective from Hollywood North
Jennifer Gardy leads one of the most interesting double lives in science. By day, the medical epidemiologist uses DNA sequences to track disease outbreaks. By night, she appears in science...
View ArticleJeffrey Mogil: Not just a disco-loving geneticist
Geneticist Jeffrey Mogil has found genes connected to pain in unexpected places, including areas of DNA also responsible for red hair. But he’s given up most of his genetics research; the technology...
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