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Doogab
Yi is a Stetten Fellow in the Office of
NIH History for 2008-2009.
Doogab
Yi received his Ph.D. in History from Princeton
University in 2008. Dissertation title:
The Recombinant University : Genetic Engineering
and the Emergence of Biotechnology at Stanford,
1959-1980.
Project
Description: At the NIH History Office,
I intend to complete two related projects
on a migration of biomedical researchers
into the biology of higher organisms from
the 1960s to the 1980s and its epistemological
and institutional consequences. First, I
plan to complete a book manuscript on the
history of recombinant DNA research and
technology at Stanford University from the
1960s to the 1980s. With a focus on the
theme of the technologization of life, this
book will offer an alternative to standard
accounts of the development of genetic engineering
emerged during the patenting of Cohen-Boyer's
recombinant DNA technology. In addition,
this book will illuminate the commercialization
of biomedical research in the academy in
non-normative terms by focusing on the history
of recombinant DNA patents. Second, I want
to examine the history of tumor virology
and cancer research at the National Cancer
Institute (NCI) in the later half of the
twentieth century. My research project will
investigate the broader scientific and institutional
shifts during the 1970s by examining the
NCI's intramural research programs. I in
particular will focus on the Virus Cancer
Program, which gained a top-priority position
at the NCI and NIH in the 1970s. First of
all, my investigation will provide a technical
analysis on the development of cellular
oncogene theory. More significantly, the
history of the NCI's virus cancer programs
will provide a useful vantage point of analyzing
the history of biomedical research in the
1970s, including the shift in research focus
of molecular biology toward the biology
of higher organisms; cancer research and
the emergence of big-scale, target-oriented
biomedical research; and the rise of the
biomedical complex in the late twentieth
century.
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Publications:
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Doogab
Yi, “The Scientific Commons in the Marketplace:
The Industrialization of Biomedical Materials
at the New England Enzyme Center, 1963-1980,”
History and Technology (Accepted
in 2008, Coming in 2009).
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Doogab
Yi, “Cancer, Viruses, and Mass Migration:
Paul Berg's Venture into Eukaryotic Biology
and the Advent of Recombinant DNA Research
and Technology, 1967-1974,” Journal of
the History of Biology (In press for
Volume 41 (2008): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10739-008-9149-9
).
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Doogab
Yi, “The Coming of Reversibility: The Discovery
of DNA Repair between the Atomic Age and the
Information Age,” Historical Studies in
the Physical and Biological Sciences
27 (2007), pps. 35-72.
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