Anita Mattson, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, received a $1.7-million award from NIH to develop a new class of catalysts that could make it possible to reliably synthesize organic compounds that hold the promise of treating cancers that have become resistant to commonly used chemotherapy. The catalysts may also open the door to a new approach to discovering drugs for cancer and other diseases.
In the 1970s, when E. Donnall Thomas was researching bone marrow transplantation, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center started a database of transplant recipients.
