Family, friends and colleagues joined Salk American Cancer Society Professor Tony Hunter on August 25 at the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine to celebrate his 75th birthday. Hunter, holder of the Renato Dulbecco Chair in the Molecular and Cell Biology Laboratory, came to Salk in 1971 as a postdoctoral fellow and joined the faculty just a few years later.
Salk’s New ExplorersLike people, institutions move forward generation by generation. The Salk Institute’s first group of scientists included founder Jonas Salk, famous for developing the first effective and safe polio vaccine; and Renato Dulbecco, who demonstrated how viruses can cause cancer and who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1975.
A matter of timeSalk Professor Satchidananda (Satchin) Panda runs his life like clockwork. Most mornings, if he’s not traveling, he wakes up around 6 a.m. without an alarm. One of the first things he does is go out to his backyard to check on his provisions for wild birds.
Driven to SucceedFrom once being a schoolboy sitting on the floor of a rural classroom with no electricity, to now being a breast cancer researcher in the laboratory of Geoffrey Wahl, Raj Giraddi’s deep and abiding interest in biological research has always driven him forward.
