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WATERFORD AWARD WINNER ANNOUNCED
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Scripps
Clinic
Department
Medical
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degree and doctorate
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achievements
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in
White
Achievement Award from George
Lasker
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Foundation
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Medical
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University,
and
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a member of
Academy of Sciences and the academy's Institute
a fellow
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numerous awards
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that
transduction,
research,
Case Western
received
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Basis of Therapeutics,
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