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Married researchers team up in cancer fight – McLaughlin Research Institute
After Nancy Jenkins and Neal Copeland met as postdoctorates at Harvard University and eventually got married, they quickly decided to spend their careers working in the same lab rather than separate ones.
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If they had separate labs, it would mean they’d be competing, and that’s not a good way to stay married, Copeland said.
The top cancer researchers have spent their careers together. Every paper they’ve published has been a collaboration, with the two taking turns as the lead author.
Their work is so indistinguishable that when Jenkins was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, a high honor, she turned it down because her husband and research partner wasn’t included.
McLaughlin Research Institute http://www.montana.edu/wwwmri/
By ERIN MADISON • Tribune Staff Writer
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