Among the great names that adorn the roll of Nobel prize-winners in Medicine is that of Otto Meyerhof, my admired teacher and friend, to whose inspiration, guidance and encouragement I owe so very much.

Being a native of Spain, the country to which I owe much of my education and cultural background, I was deeply influenced by my great predecessor Santiago Ramon y Cajal.

I treated as few patients as I could as a medical student, and I never practiced medicine.

The nucleic acids have considerable biological importance because of their role in cell growth and in the transmission of hereditary characters.

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

A hallmark of the Latino community is to help one another, if students are interested in a way to give back and help their communities, becoming a teacher is probably one of the very best ways of doing that.