Karen Hopkin | May 1, 2010 | 7 min read
By Karen Hopkin Death Star A fax that Michael Hengartner sent to his mentor helped turn apoptosis into a Nobel Prize–winning pathway. © Justin Hession As an incoming graduate student at MIT in the late 1980s, Michael Hengartner knew he wanted to work with David Baltimore on the transcription factor NF-kappaB. “He’s such a great scientist and NF-kappaB is such a cool protein,” he says. “So I thought, OK