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Science 1 December 2000:
Vol. 290. no. 5497, pp. 1715 - 1716
DOI: 10.1126/science.290.5497.1715
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AMERSHAM PHARMACIA BIOTECH & SCIENCE PRIZE:
Transposition and Evolution of Antigen-Specific Immunity

Alka Agrawal

Alka Agrawal grew up in Farmington Hills, near Detroit, Michigan, and earned her bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Michigan. Dr. Agrawal entered the pharmacology graduate school program at Yale University and began working in the laboratory of David Schatz, investigating the role of DNA repair proteins in V(D)J recombination. The development of an in vitro V(D)J cleavage system in the laboratory changed her focus and she began studying the cleavage mechanism as part of her doctoral research. Exposure to science policy at the National Academy of Sciences, and to science journalism through the AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellows Program, prompted Dr. Agrawal to pursue a career in science writing.

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