Since the dawn of man: when a novel virus is introduced to the human species, the world is changed forever. Despite all of our advances—we can share information around the globe in seconds and we can fly to the moon—a never-before-seen virus can stop us all in our tracks and steal people’s lives too soon.
National Institutes of HealthFrancis S. Collins, NIH director:
The year 2020 will no doubt be recorded as one of the most tumultuous in our nation’s, if not the world’s, history.
“Please welcome Claudia to the stage; she will be discussing resistance mechanisms to immune checkpoint inhibitors.”
If you look at attendance, COVID-19 didn’t derail ASCO20.
In a first nationwide study of its kind, two researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Anna Lee and Fumiko Chino, set out to answer two questions:
It is not a matter of editorial opinion to say these words: Black Lives Matter.
The past ten days have seen an outpouring of emotions as American society, devastated by the tragic murder of George Floyd by four Minneapolis police officers, plunges into a crisis of conscience.
I am almost certain that no other director of an NCI-designated cancer center can claim the distinction of having had a gun pulled on them by police.
As a freshly-minted director of H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, John Cleveland has two items on top of his to-do list: Rework the center’s leadership, and deal with a crippling pandemic.
