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William French Anderson

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American physician, geneticist and molecular biologist, known as the Father of Gene Therapy

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William French Anderson is an American physician, geneticist and molecular biologist. He is known as the "father of gene therapy". He graduated from Harvard College in 1958, Trinity College, Cambridge in 1960, and from Harvard Medical School in 1963.

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1994King Faisal International Prize in Medicine

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William French Anderson is an American physician, geneticist and molecular biologist. He is known as the "father of gene therapy". He graduated from Harvard College in 1958, Trinity College, Cambridge in 1960, and from Harvard Medical School in 1963. In 1990 he was the first person to succeed in carrying out gene therapy by treating a 4-year-old girl suffering from severe combined immunodeficiency.

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Born 1936 · age 89
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