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ROCKVILLE, Md., Feb. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The National Foundation for Cancer Research (NFCR) announced today that the 2021 Szent-Györgyi Prize for Progress in Cancer Research will be awarded to Tak W. Mak, Ph.D., senior scientist at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and university professor at the University of Toronto, and Mark M. Davis, Ph.D., professor of microbiology and immunology at the Stanford University School of Medicine, for their breakthrough discoveries of the structure of T-cell receptor (TCR) and pioneering research in deciphering the mechanisms of T-cell recognition and development. These discoveries have formed a critical part of contemporary immuno-oncology and the molecular foundation for life-saving CAR (chimeric antigen receptor) T-cell therapies, a novel T-cell-based immunotherapy approach already approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of several types of blood cancer.
Inspiring innovation
UD National Academy of Inventors Fellows discuss the creative spirit, lessons learned
According to Hungarian biochemist Albert Szent-Györgyi, who won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1937 for his study of vitamin c and cell respiration, âInnovation is seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.â
Most of the time, innovators do not know if their ideas will pan out. A lot of the time they donât. When failure occurs, inventors step back, reconsider and regroup, then keep pursuing their ideas, incorporating lessons learned along the way in order to pivot or start anew.
“It is human to yearn back the normal we had before the pandemic. We have been challenged in so many ways: socially, financially, logistically, and even mentally,” begins Dr Toseef Din, CEO, MP Shah Hospital, the keynote speaker at The Year Ahead forum of CIO East Africa’s summits in 2021. “All of this has happened […]
Skooz OK, so it s like this. This used to be a really nice profile page; pics galore, nice wallpapers, and if I say so my self, pretty cool. Then, Comcast deactivated the web pages of their subscribers, including me, and all the painstaking HTML was orphaned overnight. One of these days I ll get around to rebuilding this page. One of these days .
ungh!! Will you raise or lower my taxes? Until that question is answered, I do not hear a word they have to say.
All Hail the Mighty Kansas City Chiefs
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so thick that you don t understand the man s own words.