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Transcript : (33 leaves) ; 29 cm |
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Chemical Heritage Foundation Oral history transcript ; 0754.
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This oral history is part of a series supported by a grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts based on the Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences. This collection is an important resource for the history of biomedicine, recording the life and careers of young, distinguished biomedical scientists and of Pew Biomedical Scholar Advisory Committee members. |
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Interview conducted by Arnold Thackray and Frances Kohler at Meridien Hotel, Coronado, California, on 4 March 1991. (With Subsequent Corrections and Additions) |
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Tucker Collins grew up in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, one of three children. His father was a chemist at B.F. Goodrich, and his mother was a housewife, later she became a bank vice president. Collins spent summers with his grandparents on Long Island, New York. He was interested in science and medicine and attended the Program in Biochemistry (PIB) while in high school. He won the Westinghouse Science Talent Search and was accepted at Amherst College. At Amherst he worked with Edward Leadbetter and Walter Godchaux, two instructors from PIB. He also spent two summers at Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, where he attended Gerald Weissmann's physiology course. Collins went into University of Rochester's Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) program, obtaining both his MD and his PhD. Collins began work on vascular endothelial cells while in Jordan Pober's pathology lab section at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, while finishing his residency in pathology. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute funded his research into platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF). He says PDGF is intrinsically interesting, but its implications for nerve regeneration make it more so. Collins set up his own lab with one of his numerous grants and began teaching at Harvard University. His lab continues investigations into cytokine adhesion and PDGF, hoping to discover how and why organisms form or malform. Collins attributes his current ventures to his previous educational and lived experiences. He loves the excitement of practicing science. He discusses the balancing of career and home life. Collins would like one day to be chairman of a pathology department. |
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Tucker Collins interview conducted by Arnold Thackray and Frances Kohler at Meridien Hotel, Coronado, California, on 4 March 1991. (Philadelphia: Science History Institute, Oral History Transcript 0754). |
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Sound files Science History Institute. |
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Transcript Science History Institute. |
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Semi-restricted access (May view the work. Permission required to quote, cite, or reproduce). |
| Biography |
Tucker Collins grew up in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. He won the Westinghouse Science Talent Search and was accepted at Amherst College, where he worked with Edward Leadbetter and Walter Godchaux. He spent two summers at Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, where he attended Gerald Weissmann's physiology course. Collins went into University of Rochester's Medical Scientist Training Program program, obtaining both his MD and his PhD. Collins began work on vascular endothelial cells while in Jordan Pober's pathology lab section at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, while finishing his residency in pathology. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute funded his research into platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF). Collins set up his own lab with one of his numerous grants and began teaching at Harvard University. His lab continues investigations into cytokine adhesion and PDGF, hoping to discover how and why organisms form or malform. |
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Transcript has been indexed. |
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Collins, Tucker, interviewee.
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Weissmann, Gerald, 1930-2019.
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Pober, Jordan S.
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Brigham and Women's Hospital -- Faculty.
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Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences -- History.
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Pathologists -- United States -- Biography.
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Pathology -- United States -- Interviews.
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Pathology -- Research -- United States.
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Nervous system -- Regeneration -- Research -- United States.
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Oral histories. lcgft
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Interviews. aat
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Thackray, Arnold, 1939- interviewer.
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Kohler, Frances, interviewer.
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Chemical Heritage Foundation.
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Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences.
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Pew Charitable Trusts.
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Tucker Collins oral history interview |
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Collins oral history interview |
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