Featured Cartoons
by Pierre De Meyts

Debate: The Origin and Evolution of Introns

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Debate: Academic Tenure: Is It Necessary?

Debate: Making Sense of Antisense

Debate: Models of Immunologic Tolerance

Debate: Optimum Mutation Rates in Evolution and Disease

Pierre De Meyts, M.D., Ph.D., a.k.a. Chuck, when he is not drawing cartoons, is Director of the Hagedorn Research Institute in Gentofte, near Copenhagen, Denmark. His main field of research is receptors and signal transduction by insulin, insulin-like growth factors and growth hormone. After medical school in Belgium, he trained at the NIH with Jesse Roth and worked in Brussels and Los Angeles before settling in Denmark in 1990. He started drawing cartoons as a teenager, illustrating songs in a pop music magazine, and became a well known political cartoonist in Belgium during the student upheavals of the late sixties and early seventies. He then turned to satirical interpretations of scientific issues, some of which have been published in Nature, Trends in Biochemical Sciences, Trends in Pharmacological Sciences and various Symposia books. Email: pdm@hrl.dk or pdm@novo.dk.