He co-founded the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy.
Medicine
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He revolutionized sports medicine with new techniques for ACL repair.
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He was involved in the development of cancer drugs including Herceptin and Perjeta.
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Brooks’ test has now been administered more than four million times.
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Treffert explored how the minds of people on the autism spectrum work.
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Bone marrow and stem cell transplants cured Brown of leukemia and HIV.
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Schwartz also patented an electrical nerve stimulator to treat high blood pressure.
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Culp’s face was badly damaged in 2004, when her then-husband shot her in an attempted murder-suicide.
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Wong-Staal led the first team to clone HIV, a breakthrough that paved the way for HIV tests and the drug cocktails that allow people to live with HIV/AIDS.
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Dement was one of the first scientists to study sleep, and his work helped demonstrate just how important it is.