title: The Blout laboratory at Harvard Medical School from 1957 to 1972.
abstract: Elkan R. Blout's laboratory at the Children's Cancer Research Foundation and Harvard Medical School pioneered many approaches to the synthesis, conformation and structural studies of polypeptides, biopolymers and selected proteins. Here the early days (1957-1972) of his research group are remembered.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA. esimons@bu.edu
authors.forename: Elizabeth R
authors.initials: ER
authors.lastname: Simons
mesh_terms: D001671:Biochemistry / Q000266:history*; D001704:Biopolymers / Q000266:history; D049673:History, 20th Century; D007753:Laboratories / Q000266:history*; D008404:Massachusetts; D012577:Schools, Medical / Q000266:history*
chemical_list: D001704:Biopolymers