"Geron's board was a Who's Who of telomere research, with a little biological stardust thrown in. It included Carol Greider (who ran a lab at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory now), Woody Wright and Jerry Shay, Michael West's former mentors at the University of Texas; James Watson, the famed codiscoverer of the double helix; and, for historical, scientific, and even sentimental reasons, Leonard Hayflick."
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Leonard Hayflick
Leonard Hayflick (May 20, 1928 – August 1, 2024) was a professor of anatomy at the UCSF School of Medicine and was a professor of medical microbiology at Stanford University School of Medicine. He is known for the Hayflick limit and won more than 25 major awards.
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