Conversation with The Cancer Letter

Conversation with The Cancer Letter

We ask MIT’s Vander Heiden to delineate science from engineering—and NCI from ARPA-H
Conversation with The Cancer Letter

We ask MIT’s Vander Heiden to delineate science from engineering—and NCI from ARPA-H
“The lines are much more blurred in terms of what’s an engineering problem and what’s a basic science problem.”

The boundary between basic science and engineering has been the subject of animated discussions in cancer research for quite some time. Where does science end and engineering begin? Is that boundary porous? How does it shift over time?