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Journal of the National Cancer Institute Advance Access originally published online on April 8, 2008
JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2008 100(8):524-529; doi:10.1093/jnci/djn122
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Yuan Chang and Patrick Moore: Teaming Up To Hunt Down Cancer-Causing Viruses

Charles Schmidt

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Yuan Chang was an undergraduate student in biology at Stanford University when a friend mentioned a teaching assistant whom she might want to meet. His name was Patrick Moore, and he was a doctoral candidate in biophysical chemistry, also at Stanford. Ironically, Moore had also been tipped off about Chang, but as fate would have it, the pair didn’t actually connect until they were both in medical school at the University of Utah. They married in 1989, 7 years later.


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  		Patrick Moore, M.D., and Yuan Chang, M.D., may have discovered the virus that causes a rare skin cancer, complementing their previous discovery of Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus.

 
Ever since, Chang and Moore have sustained not just a marriage but also an increasingly celebrated research collaboration in tumor virology. The pair achieved global acclaim when they identified human herpesvirus 8, the cause of Kaposi sarcoma, which is the most common malignancy in . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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