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Article: She's making Hippocrates proud; Scripps researcher becomes role model for all, not just minorities. (Janis Jackson; Scripps Research Institute)
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- San Diego Business Journal
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- October 17, 1994
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Janis Jackson has no problem with being a role model.
A researcher at The Scripps Research Institute, Jackson knows she's a rarity: a female, African-American doctor-turned-academic who is studying cancer. And she's trying to make her story a little less rare.
"I was lucky to have educated parents, parents who could provide me with opportunities," Jackson says. "I think the few of us who have those advantages have a responsibility to try to be a role model for other students or to do anything we can to help."
Jackson, 40, has also built a growing reputation at Scripps as a creative scientist. An assistant member in the Department of Immunology who also ...