“I was attracted, even as a youngster, by infectious diseases and cancer,” recalls Alex Matter, M.D. That young boy would pursue these passions and, in adulthood, emerge as a leading global authority in the disease field. Now the CEO of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research, or A*STAR, the…...
Pioneering Physician-Scientist to Receive 2019 Szent-Györgyi Prize for Progress in Cancer Research
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 12, 2019 CONTACT: National Foundation for Cancer Research Bradley Gillenwater, Senior Director for Global Programs & Communications E-mail: bgillenwater@nfcr.org / Phone: 301-961-9161 Awardee Has Remained at the Vanguard of Various Cancer Immunotherapy Fields for over Four Decades ROCKVILLE, MD – The National Foundation for Cancer Research…...
Mary-Claire King: Sharpshooter with Breast Cancer in Her Sights
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James Allison: The Main Act
“How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.” The words of acclaimed physicist Niels Bohr can be thought to apply to the somewhat counterintuitive notion that by engineering an element of the human body’s wondrous natural defense network to disengage, wellbeing…...
Dr. Doug Lowy on the Future of Cancer Research
Dr. Lowy, in collaboration with Dr. John Schiller, has been awarded the 2018 Szent-Györgyi prize for Progress in Cancer Research for their development of a preventive vaccine for human papilloma virus, which is the leading cause of cervical cancer cases. See why Dr. Lowy thinks that the problems with cancer…...
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