Judah Folkman changed the world repeatedly with bold ideas that ranged from implantable pacemakers and subcutaneous birth control to an entirely new field of medical study: how diseases like cancer recruit blood vessels from the body via angiogenesis. Robert S. Langer, senior lecturer on surgery; Donald E. Ingber, founding director of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard and the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at HMS; and Marsha A. Moses, the Julia Dyckman Andrus Professor of Surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital, are quoted.
