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Mission of Caring

A Legacy of Shaping Tomorrow’s Leaders

October 23, 2014

Photo: Discovery Lecture

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Gray-haired man in a white shirt and striped tie gestures while speaking in a lecture room, with a projection screen behind him.Michael Longaker, M.D., director of the Stanford Program in Regenerative Medicine and the Children’s Surgical Research Program, described methods for minimizing scarring through tissue repair and engineering at his recent Flexner Discovery Lecture. (Photo by Anne Rayner)

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