December 13, 2019

The best science challenges lazy thinking and looks beyond stereotypes, said Angela Saini, a British science journalist and broadcaster, in a recent lecture on “Gender, Race, and Power in Science,” at Lister Hill Auditorium, Bldg. 38A.

The global scientific community rejoiced when the first human genome was sequenced in the early 2000s. Now, as we continue to build upon that groundbreaking international research collaboration, is it possible there are more genes we haven’t yet discovered?

NIH recently celebrated one of its own, Dr. James Kochenderfer, an investigator in NCI’s Surgery Branch, for his pioneering work developing T-cell transfer therapies for blood cancers. The Foundation for the NIH (FNIH) recently awarded Kochenderfer the second annual Trailblazer Prize for Clinician-Scientists.