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Three generations of participants.
The dedication of our thousands of participants has made, and continues to make, our rigorous epidemiologic research possible.
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 Pioneer in Cardiovascular Epidemiology, 1923–2011 
William B. Kannel, MD, Director of the Framingham Heart Study, 1966-1979 William B. Kannel, MD, died Aug. 20, 2011. He is survived by his wife, four children, 12 grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren.
Dr. Kannel was born in 1923 in New York, where he attended high school, and then graduated from the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta in 1949. He was trained in internal medicine in the US Public Health Service at Staten Island, New York, and was a fellow of the American Heart Association, the American College of Cardiology, the American Epidemiology Society, the American College of Epidemiology and the American College of Preventive Medicine.
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Testing Treatments in a Tube: Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Research (IPSC) is a recently developed method of changing ordinary white blood cells from individual blood samples so that they behave in the laboratory like cells from other organs. The first step reduces the specific functionality of the white cells, resulting in cells called IPSC's. The second step transforms the IPSC to imitate the function of another specific cell type such as liver, kidney or nerve cells. Since the IPSC testing is conducted in a laboratory after blood samples are drawn, the donor is not personally exposed to any tests or treatments.
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