Anonymous From: The Scientist | Date: December 15, 2003| Author: | Copyright The Scientist, Inc. Dec 15, 2003. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

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Fotis Kafatos is a man in love with his work. Twenty-five years ago, he opted to be in his Harvard lab instead of at home celebrating Christmas; he wanted to see if a new dot-hybridization procedure had developed as he hoped. (It did.) Today, Kafatos, 63, has not lost his drive: While working to decipher the genome of a mosquito that transmits malaria, Anopheles gambiae, he is busy running the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, a consortium of 17 countries that is interdisciplinary by nature, and design. He took over in 1993.

Science, he says, is his passion. "Being a ...

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