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Discovered a technique of cotransformation, a process which allows foreign DNA to be inserted into a host cell to produce certain proteins. Patents were filed. These are are known as the "Axel patents". Used by lots of pharmaceutical and biotech companies. Made a pile of money for Columbia; up to $100m per year at one time. These expired in August 2000. Boo.
Axel won a Nobel Prize in 2004. He will be one of the heads of the Jerome L. Green Science Center.
