Renowned Stanford University School of Medicine Microbe Hunter Stanley Falkow to Receive a 2008 Lasker Award

STANFORD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Stanley Falkow has spent his life studying how bacteria cause human disease. But ask him whose side he’s on, and he’s likely to pause. Or maybe not. Actually, it’s been pretty clear all along — as evidenced by an experiment in graduate school that required him to feed hapless bacteria to a hungry slime mold.

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