Owen Witte awarded International Harrington Prize for Innovation in Medicine

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The Harrington Discovery Institute at University Hospitals and the American Society for Clinical Investigation have awarded Owen Witte with the twelfth annual Harrington Prize for Innovation in Medicine. 

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