David Guarente's Biography

his or her patients feel better. However, there are cases where a doctor can only do so much.

Hippocrates enhanced the knowledge of medicine was the treatment. He encouraged people to look for more natural treatments for illness rather than looking to the Gods. This improved medical knowledge as people were searching for more rational reasons for illness and disease. This also helped improve patients' health in the long run; as they would find the real reasons for the illness, then they would be able to find a cure for it.

On November 1st, 2007, Meredith Kercher was murdered with a knife in her apartment. She was found by Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito at 10 A.M. the next day. There are many sides to this case and very little evidence. Rudy Guede lived in the apartment under Kercher at the time of the murder. He claims that he was with Meredith when she was killed. They were hanging out in her apartment when he went to the bathroom and heard screams. He came out and claims he saw Sollecito and a silhouette that looked like Knox. Knox says she was with Sollecito at his house smoking marijuana the night of the murder. She later broke down saying she was at Kercher's house some of the night and then claimed otherwise the day after. Sollecito claimed that he was smoking marijuana at his house and his memory was so blurred that he doesn’t remember if Knox was with him or not. Out of everything that occured, Rudy Guede was sentenced with 16 years in prison for the murder of Meredith Kercher. The Amanda Knox case was a witch hunt against Rudy Guede, not only because of his race, but because Knox and Sollecito took the blame off themselves and put it on him.

For some, a life time of devotion does not start with birth. A lifetime may not even start until later in life. For Phillip M. Gattone, his life’s work had not begun until his mid-thirties. Woken up by one of his infant son’s crying, he found his son Phillip, who was four at the time, seizing on the floor with eyes rolled back and lips turned steel blue (Condor). Epilepsy had just entered his life. Phillip Gattone is an average weight, healthy, white American man who grew up in the Chicago area, and is unassuming in demeanor. Easily perceived as an average businessman, he does not play sports or do much of anything outside of running the Epilepsy Foundation. Since waking to the nightmarish scene of his son in a seizure, Mr. Gattone’s life purpose has been dedicated to epilepsy research, awareness, and treatment progress. Through his hardship, he has founded the Center for Epilepsy Education in Batavia, became chairman of the Epilepsy Foundation of Chicago, and is now the CEO

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like his father. He works to be the best in the medical profession, becoming a

The MacArthur Foundation (2008) states that he has received his bachelors of science in 1987 from Fairfield University. He obtained his medical degree in 1991 from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He received his Ph.D. in 1999 from Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. What makes Peter so great is that he has come up with live saving practices that are improving patient safety throughout the United States and internationally. He has set new standards of healthcare performance to help save lives.

We are what we consume. Now think about it and it seems to make perfect sense. Consumption goes beyond solving practical and utilitarian problems. It is a mean of communication. Consumption plays a key role in our social, psychological, economic, political and cultural lives. In unit 4, we looked at a few people who presented new ideas in an intriguing way.

Although we do not know the details of Hippocrates and his life, we do know that he made very important contributions to the medical world that are still influential today. Without Hippocrates and his followers, the world would be a much different place. Even though he did not write all of the Hippocratic Corpus, his ideas were still very influential in the making of it. He was the first and only doctor of his time to base medical practice off of real healing remedies that were not based on

Dr. Camellia Moses Okpodu, Professor and former Chair of Biology at Norfolk State University (NSU), is the director of both the NSU Defense Intelligence Agency's designated Intelligence Community Center for Academic Excellence (DIA designated IC-CAE) and the Group for Microgravity and Environmental Biology (GMEB). She has a Ph.D. in Plant Physiology and a minor in Biochemistry from North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC). Before joining NSU, Dr. Okpodu was the Marshall Rauch Distinguished Professor of Biology at Elizabeth City State University (Elizabeth City, North Carolina). She has more than 18 years of experience as an administrator and over 23 years of experience as both a program director and a research scientist. She has served as a project director on a number of research initiatives involving both high school and undergraduate students.

et al. (2002); Shirato et al. (2000); Shimizu et al. (2001); Kitamura et al. (2002, 2003, 2002);

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A proposal submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the award of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Medical Biotechnology) in the School of Pure And Applied Sciences of Kenyatta University