Editorial
Obituary: Hidesaburo Hanafusa 1929–2009
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Correspondence: Stephan M Feller stephan.feller@imm.ox.ac.uk
Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford, UK
Cell Communication and Signaling 2009, 7:7 doi:10.1186/1478-811X-7-7
Published: 20 April 2009First paragraph (this article has no abstract)
Hidesaburo Hanafusa, an eminent figure in the areas of virology, cancer signalling and protein interaction module research passed away at age 79 on 15 March 2009. His pioneering research provided the groundwork for the discovery of the first oncogene and also introduced protein – protein interactions as a novel concept in oncogenic signalling.