Background
Born in Flora Vista, New Mexico to Evans and Blanche Wood, Wood grew up in modest surroundings.
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David Alvra Wood
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Showing academic and artistic talent from an early age, Wood graduated near the top of his high school class and went on to attend Stanford University, where he was in English classes with John Steinbeck and graduated with a degree in Chemistry in 1926.
Career
After World World War II, in which he served as a distinguished Navy doctor, Wood became the head of the Cancer Research Institute at the University of California, San Francisco (University of California, San Francisco), where he served until his retirement in 1972. Wood died at age 91 of a blood ailment at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco on November 6, 1996. His legacy lives on in the David A. Wood Chair of Tumor Biology and Cancer Research, established at University of California, San Francisco in 1983.
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