KENNETH PIENTA was named director of the Prostate Cancer Program at the Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center. He is joined by two co-directors, Samuel Denmeade and Shawn Lupold.
In the absence of the federal funding, cancer research will be leaning on private funders. But few private funders have the freedom to ask fundamental questions—questions whose answers may not have an immediate clinical impact but can dramatically advance scientific knowledge.
