Death
Folkman died in Denver on January 14, 2008 en route to deliver the 2008 Keynote Address at the Keystone Symposium (Molecular Mechanisms of Angiogenesis in Development and Disease) in Vancouver, British Columbia, one of the hundreds of lectures that he delivered at conferences and meetings around the world.
He is survived by his wife, Paula, two daughters, and a granddaughter.
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