Thought, ‘Yeah, this will be a good purpose for my lab,’ ”īy now you probably know the man we’re talking about. Roughly 150 million people worldwide wereĭecided to switch fields and devote his lab at Chiron to finding the They shared a needle - for it seemed to spread throughĬontaminated blood. Plagued the world’s most vulnerable and stigmatized people when Turning a blood transfusion into a game of Russian roulette, it Left untreated, it could cause cirrhosis,Įnd-stage liver disease and cancer. Searle & Co.Īfter Houghton arrived at Chiron, he learned about a mysteryĭangerous new pathogen that attacked the liver was running amok in Researching human interferon genes at a U.K. Top biotech companies had offered him senior scientist positionsīased on research he’d done since obtaining his PhD in 1977 from Scientist named Michael Houghton in 1982, it was already clear he was
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