Eugene Butcher
Eugene Corning Butcher (born January 6, 1950 in St. Louis , Missouri , USA ) is an American physician, immunologist and professor of pathology at Stanford University .
As a student of Irving L. Weissman, Butcher studied the migration behavior of white blood cells and cell adhesion to blood vessel cells. Today he is an independent professor and director of an immunological laboratory at Veterans Hospital in Palo Alto , California . The main area of research is the elucidation of physiological and pathophysiological processes of cell migration, mainly of lymphocytes . In 2004 he was awarded the Crafoord Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for his fundamental work in this field .
Eugene Butcher published work a. a. in Cell , Science , Nature and PNAS .
Web links
- Profile on Stanford University website
- Laboratory website
- Information from the website of the Crafoord Prize (PDF file; 321 kB)
- Entry on isiknowledge.com ( Memento from March 23, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
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| SURNAME | Butcher, Eugene |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Butcher, Eugene Corning (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 6, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Louis , Missouri , USA |