Prominent MIT scientist Susan Lindquist dies of cancer; Election fears damaging biotech stocks?; Promethera adds 10M euros in VC cash
Susan Lee Lindquist, a prominent scientist at MIT and former Director of the Whitehead Institute, has died of cancer. “She was a risk-taker and an innovator,” said MIT’s David Page. “She believed that if we were not reaching for things beyond our grasp, we were not doing our job as researchers; if we were not constantly striving for that which we could only imagine, we were not fulfilling our obligations to society as scientists.”
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