“Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined a laboratory to work on this.”

“Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary.”

“While the lab plays an enormous role, research is also influenced by inner peace of mind and one's family environment, depending on what stage of one's life and career a scientist is at.”

“Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined a laboratory to work on this.”

“We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.”