Improve It is being conducted by some top researchers, including Harvard University's Eugene Braunwald and Duke University's Robert Califf .

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The drug giant convened the ten-member panel, headed by Eugene Braunwald of Harvard Medical School in Boston, to examine the safety of heart-failure treatment Natrecor.

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Eugene Braunwald, a prominent Harvard cardiologist who is running a Vytorin trial, called Peto "the best statistician in the universe" while telling reporters that any cancer risk with the drug is unlikely.

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