ATVB Named Lecture Review-Insight Into Author: Christopher K. Glass.

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ATVB Named Lecture Reviews–Russell Ross Memorial Lectureship in Vascular Biology Insight Into the Author: Christopher K. Glass, MD, PhD, UC San Diego School of Medicine Sometime during my Junior year at the University of California, Berkeley, I settled on the idea of pursuing clinical medicine as a profession. To get a better feeling for the role of science in medicine, I started working in Alex Nichols’s lab in the Donner laboratory. This was where John Goffman had used the analytical ultracentrifuge to characterize low- and high-density lipoproteins and their relationship to heart disease. I found experimental work challenging and exciting and spent a lot of time in the lab. After my first year of medical school at the University of California, San Diego, I spent the summer working in John Kane’s laboratory in the Cardiovascular Research Institute at UC San Francisco. In addition to …