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The Unintentional Scientist

  By Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn

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Joan Massagué sits in his 13<sup>th</sup>-floor office at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center's new high-rise research building and spreads his hands to indicate both what is visible—the modern decor, the large chunk of quartz on the windowsill, the sepia drawing of two greyhounds racing—and what is not—the unlikely start of his career. He shakes his head with amusement. “Through the smallest of back doors,” he says.

It's a good story, and he knows it. In fact, the trim, dark-haired man with the genteel manner, musical Catalan accent, and keen memory for Eric Clapton and Bob Dylan lyrics, still seems surprised by where he's landed.

Photo: Mark Mahaney

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