Glamorous Ig winner featured in GQ

Eric Topol, lead author in the (approximately) 976-co-author team that won the 1993 Ig Nobel Prize for Literature, gets cozy (and gets to be gotten cozy) with Sheryl Crowe and other rock stars in the June 2009 issue of the gentlemen’s magazine GQ. A May 28 report in The Scientist explains:

Researcher Razzle Dazzle

Biomedical researchers don’t typically rub elbows with rock-‘n-roll royalty in the pages of glossy magazines. In fact, they never do. Until now.

In the June issue of GQ, a popular men’s fashion magazine, 11 of America’s leading biomedical researchers appear alongside celebrated pop musicians for a multi-page spread called “Rock Stars of Science.” … “We need to get the best and brightest excited to go into science and medicine,” David Agus, a University of Southern California cancer researcher, who was photographed alongside Scripps cardiologist Eric Topol and multi-platinum-selling singer Seal, told The Scientist. “This is an innovative way to bring attention to research.