Judah Folkman dies at age 74

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Judah Folkman died of a heart attack at Denver airport on January 14.
Judah Folkman dies at age 74
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Judah Folkman died of a heart attack at Denver airport on January 14. He was in transit to a conference in Vancouver. His importance for the field of vascular biology cannot be overstated; the web is full of his obituaries ( The Lancet  , Nature  , Cell  just to link a few). I personally met him first when he acted as an opponent in Arja Kaipainen’s PhD thesis defense in spring 1997. Dear Nobel prize committee: You were again waiting too long.