Isaiah Fidler, DVM, PhD, Oral History Interview, September 26, 2011
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Description
Major Topics Covered:
- Personal and educational background
- The “seed and soil” theory; theory of cancer as a regulated, predictable process
- The practice of basic and translational research
Interview Chapters
Chapter 01: From Veterinary Medicine to Cancer Research
Chapter 02: A New World of Research at University of Pennsylvania: Focusing a Research Career
Chapter 03: Metastasis: A Regulated Process
Chapter 04: Reflections on Research; Becoming a Citizen; Influences: Words of Wisdom
Identifier
FidlerIJ_01_20110926
Publication Date
9-26-2011
Publisher
The Historical Resources Center, Research Medical Library, The University of Texas Cancer Center
City
Houston, Texas
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
Topics Covered
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas System. M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute at Houston, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute
Disciplines
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Oncology | Oral History
Recommended Citation
Fidler, Isaiah J. DVM, PhD and Rosolowski, Tacey A. PhD, "Isaiah Fidler, DVM, PhD, Oral History Interview, September 26, 2011" (2011). Interview Sessions. 129.
https://openworks.mdanderson.org/mchv_interviewsessions/129
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Open
About the Interview
About the Interview Subject:
Dr. Isaiah J. Fidler (b. Jerusalem, Israel, 1936) was recruited to MD Anderson in 1983 to establish the Metastasis Research Laboratory. He is the Director of the Metastasis Research Laboratory in the Dept of Cancer Biology. He is a Professor in the Department of Cancer Biology with a joint appointment in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.