Conversation with The Cancer Letter

The Cancer Letter sent the following questions to the University of Utah and a nearly identical list of questions to Soon-Shiong's spokesperson. Julie Kiefer, manager, scientific communications at the University of Utah, provided responses to these questions. No response was received from Soon-Shiong's offices.

When the University of Utah officials unexpectedly fired Mary Beckerle from her job as CEO and director of the Huntsman Cancer Institute earlier this week, they made an enemy few people in the state would wish for: the powerful Huntsman family.

Jon Huntsman, Sr., said he was shocked by the unexpected firing of Mary Beckerle, CEO and director of the cancer center he founded and which his family continues to fund.

MD Anderson Cancer Center's complaint against Pelotonia, filed Oct. 5, 2016, argues that the Ohio cancer fundraiser's use of the slogan “One Goal: End Cancer” infringes on the Houston hospital's “One goal. Stop cancer.” registered trademark.

Scientists and patient advocates have largely overlapping agendas, but, ultimately, their agendas diverge, said Fran Visco, president of the National Breast Cancer Coalition, the organization that ushered in a new era in the politics of cancer research and delivery of care.

President's Donald Trump's budget proposal should be treated as a genuine, credible threat to science, said Richard Klausner, a biotechnology entrepreneur who led NCI through the years of the doubling of the NIH budget.