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Article: Top Canadian Prize Goes to Stanford Scientist Lucy Shapiro for Bringing Cell Biology into Three Dimensions.
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- Blood Weekly
- Article date:
- April 16, 2009
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Lucy Shapiro may be the only artist who ever truly enjoyed organic chemistry. So much, in fact, that the newly graduated Brooklyn College fine arts major set aside her paintbrushes and devoted her life to biological research (see also Stanford University School of Medicine).
"It was clearly as much of a challenge as Dante, but more fun," said Shapiro, PhD, a professor of developmental biology at the Stanford University School of Medicine who also studied literature and wrote her undergraduate thesis on the Florentine poet. "Science is so beautiful, and you get real answers. I knew right then that ‘this was it.'" Obviously, wavering is not her style.
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