TY  - JOUR
TI  - From here to there; a life based on migration. An interview with Isaiah J. Fidler

AU  - Hart, IanR.
T2  - The International Journal of Developmental Biology
AB  - As part of the technological advances of our age, it proved 
possible to conduct this interview across "the ether" using the medium of 
e-mail. Not the most satisfactory medium for me and not just 
because I failed to add to my air miles by foregoing a trip to Houston. It 
was disappointing for me because, as a former pupil of Josh's, I 
was well aware of the warm and generous hospitality I could 
have expected from him and his wife Margaret had I visited their 
home. However of greater import for the flavour of this review is the 
fact that by not going to Houston I am forced back on fairly 
distant memories that could have done with being refreshed. Josh is 
one of the great teachers in modern tumour biology and his 
teaching skills are indivisible from his personality (his larger-than-life 
personality). Just as people say you have to see great rock bands, 
like the Rolling Stones, on stage in order to appreciate how good 
they are, so you need to have seen Josh Fidler lecturing in the flesh 
in order to really appreciate what an impact he has had on the field 
of metastasis research. To have "bathed" in that charisma again 
after a long absence from personal interaction would have helped 
gel some of the points I would like to get across in this 
interview. Hopefully though I still will be able to convey the excitement 
of working under Josh's direction in the late 70's and early 80's; it 
was a time when Josh made a number of seminal observations 
and drove the field forward almost by his sheer will-power. Before 
we leave the analogy drawn to rock musicians though, let me 
encourage any reader that, should Fidler be playing at a venue near 
you in the near future, a trip to a live-lecture will always be an event 
on a par with anything the world of rock-and-roll has to offer!

PY  - 2004
DO  - 10.1387/ijdb.041790ih
VL  - 48
IS  - 5-6
SP  - 457
EP  - 462
J2  - Int. J. Dev. Biol.
LA  - en
SN  - 0214-6282
SN  - 1696-3547
UR  - https://ijdb.ehu.eus/article/041790ih
Y2  - 2024/11/21/18:07:16
ER  -