- Subtitle:
- Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences: Douglas Yee
- Series:
- Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences
- Topic:
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Science, Medicine, and Technology
- Interviewer:
- Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
- Interviewee:
- Yee, Douglas
- 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:
- Chinese ancestry; childhood and education in Detroit; majors in anthropology and zoology at the University of Michigan; studies cancer chemotherapy in the laboratory of Joan M. Bull; earns an M.D. at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine; conducts research on Epstein-Barr virus in the Elliott Kieff lab; internship and residency at North Carolina Memorial Hospital; pursues a subspecialty in oncology; works as a medical staff fellow at the National Cancer Institute; investigates insulin-like growth factors and cancer in the Marc E. Lippman lab; accepts a position at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio; gene therapy; how funding shapes creativity and communication in science.