Conversation with The Cancer Letter

Conversation with The Cancer Letter

Prasad could not have had patient data when he called Vanderbilt colleagues “despicable”
Conversation with The Cancer Letter

Prasad could not have had patient data when he called Vanderbilt colleagues “despicable”

Vinay Prasad, a social media phenom and professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco, recently stunned his colleagues by stating that doctors at Vanderbilt University acted in a “despicable” manner when they offered a double lung transplant to a lung cancer patient. “The doctors at Vanderbilt are despicable in my... […]
By Paul Goldberg
ARPA-H’s Renee Wegrzyn on cancer research: “Think big. Really big. I’m handing you a magic wand.”
Conversation with The Cancer Letter

ARPA-H’s Renee Wegrzyn on cancer research: “Think big. Really big. I’m handing you a magic wand.”

A year ago, Renee Wegrzyn signed up for a very cool job. As the inaugural director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, she was to prove that the nontraditional, $2.5 billion experiment will yield the kind of high impact its high-risk investment model promises. Since Wegrzyn joined the agency in October 2022, ARPA-H has […]
By Matthew Bin Han Ong