NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Leland H. Hartwell

Leland H. Hartwell (born October 30, 1939, in Los Angeles, California) is president and director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington.

He won the 2001 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his understanding of the cell cycle through years of studying yeast.

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	Leland H. (Lee) Hartwell (born October 30, 1939, in Los Angeles, California) is president and director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington.
	Hartwell received his bachelor's degree from the California Institute of Technology in 1961.
	Hartwell is the Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board at the Canary Fund, a non-profit organization dedicated to developing new technologies for the early detection of cancer.

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