The Bio of David Page reads as a history of science in the era of Genomics. In 1979 he was the first student to work on what we now know as the Human Genome project. He then became fellow at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research before he arrived at the faculty (and MITs), and later served as President of Whitehead for 16 years. He has mapped out, cloned and published the full genomic sequence of the Y chromosome.
Now back in his lab after the presence, he studies how male and female cells, tissues and organs are and are not essentially the same. That sheds light on heart failure, systemic lupus, autism spectrum disorder and many cancers, including diseases.
That also places him in the line of fire.
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