Robert Insall

Robert Insall

Robert Insall was born in London in 1965, into a family of architects, musicians and historians. To their great surprise, he was obviously scientifically inclined from an early age. He did a B.A. at Cambridge University, then stuck around in Cambridge for a Ph.D., where he got interested in Dictyostelium, followed by a postdoc in Johns Hopkins, where he got interested in chemotaxis and cell mov...

Response to letter by Insall.

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The Insall legacy in total knee arthroplasty.

John N. Insall was a pioneer in the field of knee surgery. He was a rare individual who accomplished unparalleled levels of success as a surgeon, designer, and teacher. During the past 4 decades, he was instrumental in evolving total knee arthroplasty to its current state of excellence. Insall's impact on orthopaedics is felt by all who have come in contact with him.

Robert Koch

Robert Dottin

We are investigating the signal transduction mechanisms by which extracellular hydrophilic hormones activate genes. We use Dictyostelium discoideum as a model eukaryote because it is relatively easy to perform reverse genetics on this organism and it is also capable of development. We had earlier shown that extracellular cAMP behaves as a hydrophilic