Word: provosts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with the stem cells. CellPro was working on a procedure that would reliably separate cancer cells from stem cells. If those cancer cells could be completely purged from the blood, the cancer might not recur. The problem was that CellPro's experiments were still in their infancy. Said Nicole Provost, leader of the purging team: "I told them we needed about nine months. They told me we had eight weeks. Our first reaction was, 'Oh, man.' I mean, this was Rick's life...
Thus began what Provost and her three-member team called "the Rick project." Their lives now dictated by pagers and cell phones, they took turns in the lab, almost round the clock, running tests over and over. First the stem cells were collected in an elaborate maze of plastic tubing, then they were purged of cancer cells--a confetti of malignant cells sticking to columns of coated beads like flies to flypaper. Unfortunately, the purging process wasn't eliminating all the cancer cells. The experiment seemed to be failing. Then, in a last-minute brainstorm, Provost's team decided...
...success of these fellows was integral to earning respect for the program as a whole, says Thompson, who is also associate provost and professor of government...
...Provost Albert Carnesale said that Bundy made it possible for him to come to Harvard...
Rudenstine called diversity part of his "portfolio" at Princeton, where he served as dean of students, dean of the college and provost...