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In this interview, Ushma Neill of the Journal of Clinical Investigation interviews Dr. John Oates of Vanderbilt University, who was central in launching the field of clinical pharmacology and gave life to the concepts of first-pass drug metabolism and inter-individual variation in the way humans process drugs. Oates also made seminal discoveries on the metabolism, biosynthesis and pharmacology of eicosanoids.

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