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Arthur D. Riggs, City of Hope diabetes researcher who pioneered recombinant DNA technology, dies at 82
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Arthur D. Riggs, City of Hope diabetes researcher who pioneered recombinant DNA technology, dies at 82

Arthur D. Riggs, the diabetes expert who developed the technology that led to the first human synthetic insulin for the treatment of diabetes, died March 23 at age 82 after battling cancer.  A biotechnology pioneer and a longtime leader at City of Hope, Riggs served as director emeritus of Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope... […]
John Mark Cleland, first man to be cured of metastatic testicular cancer, dies at 71
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John Mark Cleland, first man to be cured of metastatic testicular cancer, dies at 71

John Mark Cleland died peacefully on Feb. 7, 2022, in Indianapolis. Some people reading this headline will have little or no idea who John Cleland was. However, if you are a medical or urological oncologist, you should. John Cleland was the first man whose metastatic testicular cancer was cured with combination chemotherapy containing cisplatin.