Fisher's work led doctors to move from radical mastectomies to, in some cases, lumpectomies for women with breast cancer.
The GGP work led Middleton to the banks that were financing over-leveraged borrowers.
His work led him to travel to the end of the world and back, ranging from Bora Bora to Shanghai.
That work led to the launch of a pilot last fall, the feedback from which has been incorporated into the index.
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This work led to Allegra, an antihistamine that is a blockbuster for Strasbourg, France-based Aventis (nyse: AVE - news - people ).
Smith, 52, is the voluble half of an odd couple of Amgen scientists whose early work led to Enbrel, the billion-dollar blockbuster targeting rheumatoid arthritis.
Its work led to the first Global Interfaith Network on Population and Development, launched in 2008, with the participation of more than 160 faith-based organizations and religious leaders.
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In the 1990s, it spun out from the Dundee University work led by Sir David Lane, finding a gene common to more than half of people who suffer from cancer.
Environmental and climate work led by Dr Ralph Fyfe, and further archaeological work continues at the site, with the MoD and Dartmoor National Park helping with the removal of samples.
His diabetes work led him to understand how to create a drug that would get directly into cancer cells, which were a lot like the stem cells he was studying in diabetes.
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For centuries, our walk to work has led through biblical fields of olive trees.
His work eventually led him to cross paths with Sachs, who hired him.
They added that the social impact of khat has kept men away from work and led to the disintegration of families and local communities.
It is precisely this sort of work that led to the discovery of asteroid 2012 DA14 last February by a team of Spanish astronomers.
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Litvak's work also led to the creation of a "surgeon of the week, " who would clear his calendar solely to handle urgent appendectomies and bone-setting.
The work that led to Cerovive began almost twenty years ago, in the lab of Robert Floyd, a chemist at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation.
This work directly led to a significant improvement in subsidy estimates.
Her work had led her to suspect that the hippocampus was important for forming memories, and that it might be the place where they are stored.
Dr Moffitt's team (the actual work was led by her colleague, Avshalom Caspi) looked at the effect on intelligence of breastfeeding, but in a genetic context.
But this grim aspect of the charity's work also led - in that instance - to the reunion of 120 other missing young women with their families.
That work was led, perhaps coincidentally, by imaginative, far sighted Germans who fed us all a sense that this was a real mission driven by practical ingenuity.
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Because it's illegal for public employee unions in New York state to strike, the 2005 work stoppage led to a range of sanctions from which the TWU is still recovering.
The new model forms part of wider work being led by NHS Highland and the Scottish government to come up with new ways of delivering primary health care in remote and rural areas.
Nowell's research at Penn in Philadelphia was the first to show that a genetic defect could be responsible for cancer, His work has led to numerous discoveries into the growth of cells related to cancers and other disorders.
While at Georgetown, Woosley did work that led him to believe that Chlor-Trimetron, an old Schering-Plough (nyse: SGP - news - people ) drug, might be much more effective and less sedating than had been previously believed.
That statistic prompted us to reflect on work relationships that led to power couplings.
Not only did it not work, it led to the worst financial crisis that we've had in our lifetimes.
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