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Mention Dr. Judah Folkman's name to colleagues and patients and only the grandest descriptors come to their lips - words like "giant in his field," "visionary," "genius," and "ahead of his time." Credited with revolutionizing cancer treatment with the theory that preventing angiogenesis, or new blood-vessel growth, would starve tumors, the director of vascular biology at Children's Hospital and professor of pediatric surgery at Harvard Medical School died on Monday in Denver...
Befitting his ever-active mind and lifestyle, Folkman died of an apparent heart attack in the airport en route to a scientific conference. "At 74, he was as vibrant as I remember him 20 years ago when I was in his lab," says Dr. William Li, director and co-founder of the Angiogenesis Foundation and a student of Folkman's in the 1980s. "He was bustling around, meeting colleagues, teaching students, and giving lectures...
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1933, Folkman had a passion for medicine that began early, in visits to hospitals with his father, a rabbi. Keeping in mind his father's advice to be a "rabbi-like doctor," Folkman honed two often competing abilities, becoming both a razor-sharp researcher and a compassionate clinician. "He would take time to lecture students on how to interact with everyone," says Dr. Steven Brem, director of neurosurgery at Moffitt Cancer Center in Florida and a former student of Folkman's at Harvard Medical School. "I remember one of the things he said - 'When...
...researcher, Folkman's energy and creativity were practically boundless. "He would work 21 hours a day," says Brem. "He was chairman of pediatric surgery at Children's Hospital, so he would do surgery and see patients during day, then at night he would have dinner from six to eight, then work in the lab from eight to two a.m." That dedication led Folkman to change the way cancer is treated today. His hunch, dating to his early days in the lab in the 1960s, that cancer tumors rely on the formation of new blood vessels for nourishment and growth...
...flight in 1903. With their knowledge of flight, could they fly across the ocean? No, but Lindbergh could. And who would have thought Armstrong would be flying to and walking on the moon 66 years later? Cancer will be easier to treat with developments like this,” Folkman said...