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...medical students generally have very positive comments about his lectures,” says Edwin J. Furshpan, research professor of neurobiology at HMS, who adds that Hyman was not afraid to swear occasionally in lecture. “He was strongly admired at the medical school...
However, a team of researchers led by Beverly M. Murray, an HMS research fellow in neurology, and Edwin J. Furshpan, Robert Pfeiffer professor of neurobiology at HMS, have discovered that a member of the MAP kinase family known as ERK may be involved in the activation of one or more of these excitotoxic pathways...
...Edwin J. Furshpan, professor of Neurobiology and chairman of the admissions subcommittee on minorities for Harvard Medical School said yesterday that there are no quotas for minority adissions at the Medical School...
However, it is possible that a ruling against special minority admissions would make it more difficult to admit minority applicants, who might be highly qualified to be physicians although their test scores and grade point averages might not be as high as those of others, Furshpan said...
...notions of reverse discrimination are totally misguided," Furshpan said. "We have a history of assuming that applicants with high scores and grades will make the best physicians, but it is not clear that this is always the case...