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Today, as head of the Division of Respirology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont., O'Byrne, 46, works in a most unusual way to develop treatments for allergy-related asthma. In most of his studies, he himself is a test subject, periodically doing "challenges"--inhaling allergens to give himself short episodes of asthma. He has even examined his own bone marrow and tissue biopsied from his airways and lungs. "I'm a good subject," he says, "because I'm on time, and I do the test properly...
Discovering how those steroids work and finding which allergens inflame the airways of asthmatics are the goals of O'Byrne and his team of 15 researchers at McMaster. In their studies, O'Byrne will continue to be a test subject. "I wouldn't have learned the things I have about the disease," he says, "if I weren't looking at my own airways, my own cells, my own lungs...
Something funny is going on in Lavietes Pavilion, for sure. Add last year's season-ending wins against Cornell and Columbia to an exhibition victory over McMaster, and that makes five consecutive resounding wins for Harvard at home...
...HARVARD, 85-47 at Lavistes Pavillion McMaster 26 21 -- 47 Harvard...
...McMaster: Olauson 0-0 0-0 0; Johnson 6-9 1-2 13; Wesolowski 1-7 0-0 3. Channer 8-18 1-2 17; Osei-Tutu 0-1 1-2 1; Girolametto 1-3 0-0 3; Restic 1-1 0-0 2, State 0-2 0-0 0; Piccini 1-2 0-0 2; Spithoff 0-0 0-0 0; Akrong 1-2 2-5 4; Storry 0-0 0-0 0; Newton 0-6 2-2 2. TOTALS 19-5 1 7-13 47. Harvard: Domian 3-8 0-1 7; Hill...