An appreciation of Sir Adrian Peter Bird: winner of the Charles Rodolphe Brupbacher Prize for Cancer Research 2017.

Swiss Med Wkly

Institute of Molecular Life Sciences, University of Zurich, Switzerland, and Institute of Biochemistry, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland.

Published: November 2017

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