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As a condition of my having nearly complete freedom to come and go at Vertex for almost four years while I researched and wrote this book, I agreed to let the company review my manuscript for factual accuracy and proprietary disclosures. Also, all those individuals quoted directly in connection with Vertex (including Stu Schreiber) were allowed to review their quotations, again to ensure accuracy and confidentiality on scientific matters. For scenes involving discussions with individuals outside the company from which I was excluded, I was able to reconstruct dialogue extensively due to the cooperation of the participants. In many cases, that meant talking with everyone who was there. Only in a few cases were people unwilling to talk with me. In those instances, in addition to corroboration from Vertex, I confirmed with at least one person who was present at the discussion on behalf of the other party.\"), mdx(ContentRef, {\n    id: 1,\n    mdxType: \"ContentRef\"\n  }, \"\\u2022\\xA0\\xA0\\u2022\\xA0\\xA0\\u2022\"), mdx(ContentRef, {\n    id: 2,\n    mdxType: \"ContentRef\"\n  }, \"For sections of the book that fall outside of the narrative, I relied on a variety of sources. I am indebted to Mary Snead Boger for helping me to reconstruct her son\\u2019s family background and Ken Boger and Amy Boger for their thoughtful perspectives. Director Don Cummings of the Stonewall Jackson Training School helped \", mdx(\"a\", {\n    id: \"page_434\"\n  }), \"me with Boger family history. Bill Holder of the Wesleyan University News Office facilitated my search through back issues of the \", mdx(\"i\", null, \"Argus\"), \", the student newspaper. Other helpful sources regarding the Bogers and life in Concord were the Concord \", mdx(\"i\", null, \"Tribune\"), \", on microfilm at the Concord Memorial Library, and \", mdx(\"i\", null, \"North Carolina: Through Four Centuries\"), \" by William S. Powell (1989, Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press).\"), mdx(ContentRef, {\n    id: 3,\n    mdxType: \"ContentRef\"\n  }, \"\\u2022\\xA0\\xA0\\u2022\\xA0\\xA0\\u2022\"), mdx(ContentRef, {\n    id: 4,\n    mdxType: \"ContentRef\"\n  }, \"I relied heavily on the scientists whom I interviewed to tutor me in their fields. I owe a particular debt of gratitude to Jim Mullins of Stanford University and Mark Feinberg of the University of California at San Francisco, neither of whom I\\u2019ve written about here, for their patient explanations of molecular biology and of the world and culture of high-stakes biomedical research. 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Atomic Structure of FKBP-FK506, an Immunophilin-Immunosuppressant Complex. \", mdx(\"i\", null, \"Science 252\"), \", 839-42.\"), mdx(ContentRef, {\n    id: 48,\n    mdxType: \"ContentRef\"\n  }, \"\\u2022\\xA0\\xA0\\u2022\\xA0\\xA0\\u2022\"), mdx(ContentRef, {\n    id: 49,\n    mdxType: \"ContentRef\"\n  }, \"For the sections on Tom Starzl and transplantation immunology, I relied on many sources. Much of the work originally appeared as an article in \", mdx(\"i\", null, \"The New York Times Magazine\"), \" (\\u201CThe Drug That Works in Pittsburgh,\\u201D September 30, 1990), and though I was generally required by the University of Pittsburgh to be accompanied by a member of the staff when speaking with patients on my visits to the medical center, Starzl and all members of the staff were consistently open and receptive. I owe thanks to Cheryl Ackerman, Barbara Banner, Richard Cohen, Benjamin Eidelman, Anthony Demitris, Ashok Jain, Yukio Murase, Jerry McCauley, Mike Nalesnick, Camillo Ricordi, Raman Venkataramanan, and Vijay Warty. I also am indebted to Starzl\\u2019s remarkable secretary, Terry Mangan.\"), mdx(ContentRef, {\n    id: 50,\n    mdxType: \"ContentRef\"\n  }, \"Takenori Ochiai, the Japanese surgeon who pioneered the use of FK-506 in animals and whose role is often regrettably obscured by Starzl\\u2019s, was extremely helpful in helping me to establish the early history of the drug. I owe him a special thanks.\"), mdx(ContentRef, {\n    id: 51,\n    mdxType: \"ContentRef\"\n  }, \"Starzl\\u2019s autobiography, \", mdx(\"i\", null, \"The Puzzle People\"), \" (1992, Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press) was invaluable, as was \", mdx(\"i\", null, \"Many Sleepless Nights\"), \" by Lee Gutkind (1990, Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press), especially for its descriptions of life on the transplant wards and of the Hardanger Vidda. The following books and articles were also of great use:\"), mdx(ContentRef, {\n    id: 52,\n    mdxType: \"ContentRef\"\n  }, \"Billingham, R. E. 1966. Tissue Transplantation: Scope and Prospect. \", mdx(\"i\", null, \"Science\"), \" 153, 266-70.\"), mdx(ContentRef, {\n    id: 53,\n    mdxType: \"ContentRef\"\n  }, \"Billingham, R. E., P. L. Krohn, and P. B. Medawar. 1951. 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Irradiation of the Entire Body and Marrow Transplantation: Some Observations and Comments. \", mdx(\"i\", null, \"Blood\"), \" 14, 1-23, January.\"), mdx(ContentRef, {\n    id: 62,\n    mdxType: \"ContentRef\"\n  }, \"Thompson, L. 1988. Jean-Fran\\xE7ois Borel\\u2019s Transplanted Dream. \", mdx(\"i\", null, \"Washington Post\"), \", Nov. 15.\"), mdx(ContentRef, {\n    id: 63,\n    mdxType: \"ContentRef\"\n  }, \"\\u2022\\xA0\\xA0\\u2022\\xA0\\xA0\\u2022\"), mdx(ContentRef, {\n    id: 64,\n    mdxType: \"ContentRef\"\n  }, \"Four former senior research directors at Merck\\u2014Bob Denklewalter, Ralph Hirschmann, Eugene Cordes, and H. Boyd Woodruff\\u2014helped me immeasurably in characterizing the Tishler years. Woodruff, a prot\\xE9g\\xE9 of Selman Waksman, tutored me in microbiology and soil screening. I also am grateful to Leon Gortler, who, along with John Heitmann, conducted a comprehensive interview of Tishler for the American Chemical Society\\u2019s Eminent Chemists series, and to Peter Jacobi, chairman of the Chemistry Department at Wesleyan University, who directed me toward material about both Tishler and R. B. Woodward. Mary Feiser, a member of the chemistry faculty of Harvard for more than fifty years, also enriched my understanding, as did Don Ciappanelli, former director of Harvard\\u2019s chemistry labs, who provided me with videotape of several of Woodward\\u2019s lectures from the university archives.\"), mdx(ContentRef, {\n    id: 65,\n    mdxType: \"ContentRef\"\n  }, \"I relied principally on two sets of archival material for information about medical research during World War II: the papers of A. N. 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