I knew a number of gifted graduate students when I worked at the bench, but I never met one like Arul Chinnaiyan. His was an exceptionally productive graduate career: Between 1995 and 1998, Chinnaiyan and his advisor at the University of Michigan coauthored 16 papers, including two that describe the identification of apoptotic signaling pathway members, FADD and FLICE - work that has since been cited 1,415 and 2,026 times, respectively.













