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William French Anderson,
M.D. (born
December 31,
1936) is a
U.S. physician,
geneticist and
molecular biologist. He is considered a pioneer of
gene therapy. He graduated from
Harvard College in 1958 and from
Harvard Medical School in 1963. In 1990, he claimed to be the first person ever to succeed in
gene therapy of a 4-year-old girl suffering from
SCID (a form of an immuno-deficiency disorder called "bubble boy disease"). His claims may have been exaggerated, albeit, he wasn't alone. In 2006, he was convicted of sexual abuse of a minor, the daughter of an employee.
Biography
Childhood
Anderson was born in
Tulsa,
Oklahoma. His father was a civil engineer and his mother was a journalist, writer and university professor. According
to his biography
, he stuttered. He eventually overcame his impediment and was recognized for his performance in track, theater, and debate. Anderson was a 1954 graduate of Tulsa Central High School.
Career
He entered
Harvard University, where he excelled, becoming a track star and publishing several papers, including one outlining a method for arithmetic operations using Roman numerals. Following a year abroad in Cambridge, where he met his future wife Kathy Duncan, he returned to Harvard, to the Medical School, accompanied by Kathy. They married in 1961 and both graduated a few years later. was denied, he'd faced a maximum of 18 years for molesting the now 19-year-old girl, the daughter of his colleague, in his home when she was 10 to 15 years old. Jurors were shown reconstructed e-mails and played an edited tape-recorded conversation where the girl angrily confronted Anderson, who said, "I just did it, just something in me was just evil."
In February,
2005 Anderson was also charged in
Montgomery County, Maryland with molesting a
Silver Spring, Maryland boy for three years in the 1980s. Prosecutors dropped those charges, citing insufficient evidence under Maryland law.
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