Sir Paul Nurse is the recipient of the 26th Herbert and Maxine Block Memorial Lectureship Award for Distinguished Achievement in Cancer. A geneticist and cell biologist who shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nurse is founding director and chief executive officer of the Francis Crick Institute in London.
I did not find the process of being suddenly without employment as refreshing as one might think. It did, however, provide a forced opportunity to engage in self-reflection, to critically analyze the situation around cancer, and to face the complex set of problems that cancer, and society, present to us.
