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January 4, 2006
Tulane to be featured on NOVA
From the Tulane Daily News
In a one-hour premiere on Tuesday, Jan. 10, at 7 p.m. central time on PBS (check local listings), NOVA sciencenow will introduce viewers to Tyler Curiel, professor and chief of hematology and medical oncology at the Tulane University School of Medicine. Curiel worked heroically in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to try to rescue the irreplaceable research from his lab.
During the segment, Curiel recounts the dramatic and moving story of working under extreme conditions in an attempt to save key scientific research and preserve the memory of his friend, Andy Martin. Martin was a Tulane medical student who had been diagnosed with sinonasal undifferentiated carcinoma (SNUC), a rare form of cancer.
Up to the time of his death, Martin had worked tirelessly in Curiel's lab at the Tulane medical school to extract the only known living cell line of SNUC in the world. Were Curiel's extraordinary efforts enough to save this invaluable research, which could one day lead to breakthroughs in treatment for the disease?
Posted by Niels Olson at January 4, 2006 8:49 AM
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