Douglas Hanahan

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Douglas Hanahan

Professor Douglas Hanahan (born 1951)[1] an American biologist, and director of the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne.

In 1983 he developed Super Optimal Broth, a microbiological growth medium.[2][3] He also improved the protocols used for plasmid transformation of Escherichia coli.[2]

With Robert Weinberg he wrote a seminal paper The Hallmarks of Cancer, published in January 2000, and which in March 2011 is the most often cited article from the peer reviewed journal Cell.[4]

Notes and references

  1. ↑ "Biography 34: Doug Hanahan (1951 - )". Dolan DNA Learning Center. Retrieved 2011-04-04. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Hanahan, D. (1983). "Studies on transformation of Escherichia coli with plasmids". Journal of Molecular Biology 166 (4): 557–580. doi:10.1016/S0022-2836(83)80284-8. PMID 6345791. 
  3. ↑ SOC Medium
  4. ↑ Hanahan, D.; Weinberg, R. (2000). "The hallmarks of cancer". Cell 100 (1): 57–70. doi:10.1016/S0092-8674(00)81683-9. PMID 10647931. 

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