Protagonists of Medicine

Chapter 1 Foreword

Chapter 2 Paul Ehrlich’s Doctoral Thesis: A Milestone in the Study of Mast Cells

Chapter 3 The Contribution of Gianni Bonadonna to the History of Chemotherapy

Chapter 4 Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet and the Clonal Selection Theory of Antibody Formation

Chapter 5 The Contribution of Bruce Glick to the Definition of the Role Played by the Bursa of Fabricius in the Development of the B-Cell Lineage

Chapter 6 Miller’s Seminal Studies on the Role of Thymus in Immunity

Chapter 7 The Fundamental Contribution of Robert A. Good to the Discovery of the Crucial Role of Thymus in Mammalian Immunity

Chapter 8 The Fundamental Contribution of Jan C. Waldenström to the Discovery and Study of the So-Called Waldenström Macroglobulinaemia

Chapter 9 Foreword

Chapter 10 Giulio Bizzozero and the Discovery of Platelets

Chapter 11 A milestone in the Study of the Vascular System: Wilhelm Roux’s Doctoral Thesis on the Bifurcation of Blood Vessels

Chapter 12 Stephen Paget and the “Seed and Soil” Theory of Metastatic Dissemination

Chapter 13 The Contribution of Roberto Montesano to the Study of Interactions Between Epithelial Sheets and the Surrounding Extracellular Matrix

Chapter 14 The Seminal Work of Werner Risau in the Study of the Development of the Vascular System

Chapter 15 Judah Folkman, A Pioneer in the Study of Angiogenesis

Chapter 16 The Contribution of Harold F. Dvorak to the Study of Tumour Angiogenesis and Stroma Generation Mechanisms

Chapter 17 Napoleone Ferrara and the Saga of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor

Chapter 18 Pietro M. Gullino and Angiogenesis