DAVID WEINER was named executive vice president of The Wistar Institute, director of the Vaccine Center, and the W. W. Smith Endowed Chair in Cancer Research. Weiner will also contribute tumor immunology-focused research as a professor in Wistar’s Translational Tumor Immunology program. Previously, Weiner was a professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the University...
How’s this for a paradox: The better cancer centers become at keeping patients alive, the more expensive cancer care becomes. This brutal tradeoff hits harder in rural areas, where the cancer burden is higher and the investigator and clinical trial representation is lower.
