The year was 1998, location, Italian Alps. Jim and I were attending an intimate Pezcoller meeting organized by David Livingston. At that meeting, Jim presented something I had never seen in the entirety of my career—the eradication of cancer in mice following treatment with an antibody designed to inhibit a T cell checkpoint mechanism.
As biomedical research at NIH faces an existential threat from the Trump administration, an entrepreneur is winning over allies for what he describes as a “simple idea” that could introduce a massive new infusion of money for innovation in medicine.
