Judah Folkman A Biography /

• Main Author: Ribatti, Domenico (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cell biology.; Biology-History.; Biomedicine, general.; Cell Biology.; History of Biology.

The aim if this book is to analyze the scientific biography of Judah Folkman, one of the most important scientist of the last century. More 50 years ago, Folkman found a revolutionary new way to think about cancer. Blood supply, Folkman hypothesized, was the key to tumor growth. Without new blood ve...

Table of Contents:

• Biographic profile
• Development of assays to study angiogenesis
• Tumor angiogenesis
• The discovery of angiogenic factors
• Anti-angiogenesis
• Concluding remarks
• References
• Publications of Judah Folkman (2014-1956). Index.