Judah Folkman

…And in the lab where I trained, in the Pioneer's lab, looking at androgenesis, a guy named Judah Folkman, I will tell you, when a tumor could not get blood vessels, it stayed tiny and small, just the same size that the immune system would find and knock it out.…

…She'd call researchers all over the world. She was, you know, bound and determined to find anything that would help her husband. And it was in the course of doing that that a researcher told her about the work of Judah Folkman in Boston. who had a theory that if you could block blood vessel growth, you could starve tumors of what they needed to grow. And hi…

…One, I guess I've always been very stubborn. My parents told me that. But secondly, I think there's a whole thing with role models, too. When I was a postdoc, the man that I worked with, Judah Folkman, he experienced the same thing. He had this theory that if you could stop blood vessels, you could stop cancer, and that was mediated by chemical signals.…