Errol Friedberg and Miroslav Radman are interviewed by Mila Pollock

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Errol Friedberg currently serves as the Senator Betty and Dr. Andy Andujar Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Pathology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.He is biologist and historian of science. He received his M.D. from University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. He did his residency in pathology at the University of the Witwatersrand from 1963-1964 and at the Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital in 1965. He continued with his fellowship training in biochemistry at the Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.

His research interests focus on DNA repair and its relationship to carcinogenesis. Errol Friedberg is the author of books such as Sydney Brenner: A Biography, Sydney Brenner: My Life in Science, The Writing Life of James D. Watson and DNA Repair and Mutagenesis.

Errol Friedberg is a Fellow of American Academy of Microbiology and American Association for the Advancement of Science and Editor-in-Chief of the scientific journal DNA Repair. He received Rous Whipple Award from the American Society for Investigative Pathology and Lila Gruber Award for Cancer Research.

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Miroslav Radman is a professor of cellular biology at the Faculté de Médecine - Necker, Université Paris V in France. He received his B.Sc. in experimental biology and physical chemistry from University of Zagreb in Yugoslavia and Ph.D. from the Free University of Brussels in Belgium.

He did his first post-doctoral research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Gif-sur-Yvette in France (1969-1970) and the second one at the Harvard University in Cambridge in USA. In 1972 he became an Associate Professor of Molecular Genetics in Department of Molecular Biology at Free University of Brussels. Between 1973-1983 he served there as a Tenured Research Professor and head of the Laboratory of Enzymology of DNA in Department of Molecular Biology. He was a Research Director of the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique at Institute Jacques Monod in France (1983-1998). In 1993 he was a National Coordinator of the French Genome Project entitled “Genetic Instabilities Associated with Repeated DNA Sequences”. In 1998 he became a Professor of Cell Biology at the Medical School "Necker - Enfants Malades", Université Paris 5.

Miroslav Radman is a member of EMBO, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, The New York Academy of Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science and French Academy of Sciences. Among his many honors and awards he has received FEMS-Lwoff Award for his research of DNA repair mechanism in Deinococcus radiodurans and Science Award 2000 from the “U.S. Environmental Mutagen Society”. He co-founded the Mediterranean Institute For Life Sciences.