Carlos cordon cardo biography

          Carlos Cordon-Cardo (born February 25, ) is a Spanish-born American physician and scientist known for his research in experimental pathology and....

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        1. Carlos Cordon-Cardo concentrated his research efforts particularly on the multidrug resistance in human cancer and the alteration of tumor suppression genes.
        2. Carlos Cordon-Cardo (born February 25, ) is a Spanish-born American physician and scientist known for his research in experimental pathology and.
        3. Carlos Cordon-Cardo is a Spanish-born American physician and scientist known for his research in experimental pathology and molecular oncology.
        4. Cordon-Cardo obtained his M.D. from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain, in , and his Ph.D.

          5. Carlos Cordon-Cardo

          Spanish-born American physician and scientist

          Carlos Cordon-Cardo (born February 25, 1957) is a Spanish-born American physician and scientist known for his research in experimental pathology and molecular oncology.

          He holds the "Irene Heinz Given and John LaPorte Given" Chair in Pathology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

          Life and career

          Cordon-Cardo was born in Calella, a seaside town in the Province of Barcelona and was determined to study medicine and pathology from his childhood days when he asked for a microscope for his 10th birthday.

          He enrolled in the Autonomous University of Barcelona medical school in 1975 and received his MD in 1980. With the encouragement of his mentor at the university and the assistance of a fellowship from the Spanish Government, he then went to Cornell University Medical College for graduate work in pathology, cell biology and genetics.[1][2]

          After earning his PhD from Cornell in 1985 with his diss