网页Judah Folkman, MD. (February 24, 1933 – January 14, 2008) Past Professor of Ophthalmology. "The Father of Angiogenesis". BIOGRAPHY As a young navy doctor in 1961, Dr. Judah Folkman noticed that tumors needed blood vessels to grow. Ten years later, Folkman published a controversial theory that is now widely accepted: targeting angiogenesis may ...