The Scientist : Sweet Music
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By Karen Hopkin

Sweet Music

Ajit Varki came to the United States to hear 1970's superbands. He stayed to do super glycobiology research.

According to Derek Toomre of Yale University, Ajit Varki - professor of medicine and cellular and molecular medicine at the University of California, San Diego - came to the United States for the music. "At least that's what he told us," says Toomre, Varki's former graduate student. "He was a top medical student in India and he was drawn here because he liked rock and roll."



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