In order to understand how things could have gone so wrong, I spoke with two prominent epidemiologists, who have both been investigators and advisors on the NCS: David Savitz of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island and Nigel Paneth of Michigan State University in East Lansing.

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Fakhrai was born in Iran and came to the U.S. in the mid-1960s to get a doctorate in human genetics at Michigan State University, in East Lansing.

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When he graduated from Michigan State University in 1954, Eli Broad recalls the East Lansing campus was focused on agriculture and engineering and set in a sleepy farming community.

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