{"id":59,"date":"2008-01-16T00:42:22","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T00:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shenhanlee\/2008\/01\/16\/moses-judah-folkman-md-1933-2008\/"},"modified":"2008-01-17T07:04:24","modified_gmt":"2008-01-17T07:04:24","slug":"moses-judah-folkman-md-1933-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shenhanlee\/2008\/01\/16\/moses-judah-folkman-md-1933-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Moses Judah Folkman, MD (1933 &#8211; 2008)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reports <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hno.harvard.edu\/multimedia\/folkman.html\">here<\/a> . More about the man <a href=\"http:\/\/harvardscience.harvard.edu\/medicine-health\/articles\/m-judah-folkman-biomedical-pioneer-dies-74\">here\u00a0<\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.childrenshospital.org\/cfapps\/research\/data_admin\/Site2580\/mainpageS2580P0.html\">here<\/a>.\u00a0Detailed biography <a href=\"http:\/\/www.childrenshospital.org\/cfapps\/research\/data_admin\/Site105\/mainpageS105P0.html\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>M. Judah Folkman, the legend behind the theory of angiogenesis in the development of cancer, has died. A clinician-scientist par excellence who weathered through the storm of skepticism in the early days of his career, Dr Folkman leaves behind a legacy of using anti-angiogenesis drugs to make cancer a manageable disease, very much like diabetes and ischaemic heart disease. Having read his works, publications, reflections, and memoirs during the &#8216;Pharmacology of Inflammation and Angiogenesis&#8217; module of my Part II undergraduate course in Pharmacology at Cambridge, I count Dr Folkman as one\u00a0of my heroes in science and medicine.<\/p>\n<p>May you rest in peace, Dr Folkman.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports here . More about the man here\u00a0and here.\u00a0Detailed biography here. M. Judah Folkman, the legend behind the theory of angiogenesis in the development of cancer, has died. A clinician-scientist par excellence who weathered through the storm of skepticism in the early days of his career, Dr Folkman leaves behind a legacy of using anti-angiogenesis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":491,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shenhanlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shenhanlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shenhanlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shenhanlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/491"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shenhanlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shenhanlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shenhanlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shenhanlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shenhanlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}