Mike and Me Since 1973: A Review of a Long Friendship and Research Relationship
摘要
Michael Mackey and I have known each other for a long time! He was a graduate student and received his Ph.D. in Physiology from the University of Washington (UW) in 1968, now my academic home. Mike reports that he got his inspiration to study the dynamics of cell growth at the UW from a fellow graduate student, Dr. John Combs [1]. We both began working at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1968 but we did not know each other then. At that time the US had an ongoing universal military draft. I, like Mike, saw benefit for my family and my career if I if I got a job at the NIH rather than going to the war in Vietnam. At the NIH Mike began studying the classic cell cycle, focusing on the rodent mammary tumor model as proposed by Burns and Tannock [2, 3].