- Subtitle:
- Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences: Janko Nikoli-ugi
- Series:
- Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences
- Topic:
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Science, Medicine, and Technology
- Interviewer:
- Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
- Interviewee:
- Nikolic-Zugic, Janko
- Supporting Documents:
- Records relating to the interview are located in the office of the UCLA Library's Center for Oral History Research.
- Language:
- English
- Copyright:
- Regents of the University of California, UCLA Library.
- Series Statement:
- Interviews in this series, sponsored by the Pew Charitable Trusts, document the research of "outstanding scientists from quality institutions" chosen by the Pew Scholars Program to receive four-year stipends.
- Abstract:
- Childhood in Yugoslavia; Nikoli-ugi's first contact with the field of immunology; the role of the Communist Party in the Yugoslavian educational system; graduate study with Miodrag Luki; science research conditions in Yugoslavia; work in the Michael J. Bevan lab on intrathymic T cells; Nikoli-ugi's experimental method; the reasons for doing risky science; how funding affects the direction of research; the politics of publishing in the sciences; the necessity for animal research; Nikoli-ugi's philosophy of lab management; a comparison of cultural attitudes toward doing science.