One day in 1994, a man appeared at the Massachusetts General Hospital infectious-diseases clinic and offered himself up for
research. A hemophiliac, he had been infected with HIV since
1978, but, remarkably, he had never shown any signs of AIDS.
"I feel great," he told the doctors. "You might want to study me." Indeed, Bruce D. Walker recalls, "We started studying him like crazy." continued...

Above: Interacting with patients has enabled Bruce Walker to ask research questions that probably wouldn't have come out of lab work alone.

	A Physician-Scientist by Any Other Name
	Broadening the Research Base

Photo: Kathleen Dooher

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Reprinted from the HHMI Bulletin,
September 2002, pages 14-19.
©2002 Howard Hughes Medical Institute