Word: folkman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...School professor in charge of the research said yesterday the grant has been very helpful--he's used it to pay for supplies and for the work of biologists, physiologists, medical students and electron microscopes. But M. Judah Folkman, Andrus Professor of Pediatric Surgery, cautioned that the work takes a great deal of time...
Cancer research is an emotional topic for many who have cancerafflicted friends and relatives, Folkman said, so he is wary of either saying the work is progressing well--in which case demands for an immediate cure would besiege him--or saying it progresses slowly--in which case he gets calls urging haste...
Cancer tumors manufacture TAF, causing an animal to create blood vessels supplying the tumor with necessary nourishment. Folkman and his research team are investigating substances that interfere with...
...inactivated, the body will not produce blood vessels to nourish the tumor, and without the vessels, the tumor can do no damage, according to an article by Folkman in the May issue of Scientific American...
...Harvard doctors using part of a $23 million grant from the Monsanto Chemical Co. report they've made no progress toward a cancer cure. "However," says Dr. Judah Folkman, "we've discovered a great aerosol oven cleaner...