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July 16, 2013; 81 (3) Special Article

Mitochondrial encephalomyopathies—Fifty years on

The Robert Wartenberg Lecture

Salvatore DiMauro
First published July 15, 2013, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0b013e31829bfe89
Salvatore DiMauro
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Mitochondrial encephalomyopathies—Fifty years on
The Robert Wartenberg Lecture
Salvatore DiMauro
Neurology Jul 2013, 81 (3) 281-291; DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e31829bfe89

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This lecture honors the memory of Robert Wartenberg, who was born in Lithuania, trained in Germany, and in 1935 moved to the United States, where he started his second career as a scholar and teacher at the University of California, San Francisco.1

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The author thanks Drs. Eric A. Schon and Michio Hirano for collaboration and Pablo Abreu for help with the figures.

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  • Received April 15, 2013.
  • Accepted in final form April 22, 2013.
  • © 2013 American Academy of Neurology
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