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01.08.2009 | Personal View
Bone turnover in age-related osteoporosis: early contributions of Pierre Delmas
verfasst von:
B. Lawrence Riggs
Erschienen in:
Osteoporosis International
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Ausgabe 8/2009
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Excerpt
One cold evening in March, 1981, I arrived at the Rochester, MN Airport to meet a new postdoctoral research fellow from Lyon, France who had come to work for 6 months in my laboratory at the Mayo Clinic. Professor Pierre Meunier of the Claude Bernard University had recruited this promising young physician to his group and had sent him to be exposed to the American approach to clinical investigation. This was my introduction to Pierre Delmas. From the beginning, it was clear that he was special. Although the original plan was for him only to observe, Pierre wanted his own research project. Indeed, he wanted multiple research projects and not just minor ones at that. When I pointed out that this was unrealistic given his limited time in Rochester, he replied, “Give me a chance; I'm a hard worker.” And so he was. …