David Frank, a physician-scientist specializing in leukemia, was named director of the Division of Hematology and professor in Emory University School of Medicine’s Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology at Winship Cancer Institute, effective Sept. 1.
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.
