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Nature Medicine 14, 697 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nm0708-697

Harvard turns to matchmaking to speed translational research

Meredith Wadman1

  1. Washington, DC

Joan Brugge knew she had met her man during a 2006 meeting in a small, crowded conference room at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. Brugge, who heads the department of cell biology at Harvard Medical School, had just presented exciting findings: her group had identified a protein called BIM that acts as an 'executioner' of abnormally-proliferating cells.