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Article: Shedding Southern Security.(John Reed of the Burnham Institute)
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- San Diego Business Journal
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- June 19, 2000
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Scientist John Reed Worked His Way Out of Backbreaking Labor and Into Groundbreaking Research
Far removed from his posh suburban life in Rancho Santa Fe, one of the country's top scientists is reminiscent of simple beginnings: cottonfields and hogs.
Dr. John C. Reed, scientific director of the Burnham Institute, a nonprofit center formerly known as the La Jolla Cancer Research Foundation, still prides himself in having contributed to the family's bank, then working his way through medical school doing hard labor.
"I had done everything from pick cotton, pick tomatoes, castrate hogs, shovel manure out of barns and bale hay," says Reed, 41.
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