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Professor of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School.
Professor of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School.
Lewis Cantley is a cell biologist and a professor in the Departments of Systems Biology and Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Among his research contributions are the discovery and study of the enzyme PI-3-kinase, now known to be important to understanding cancer and diabetes mellitus. He is also the Director of Cancer Research at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Lewis Cantley: A panel discussion highlighting cutting-edge cancer research.
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The previous director of the National Cancer Institute wanted to banish suffering and death from cancer by 2015. Current director Harold Varmus says this claim was not based on reality, […]
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Seemingly every year there are new reports that something we consume or use on a daily basis is carcinogenic. But what exactly does that mean on a biological level?
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The Cancer Genome Atlas project, already several years underway, is transforming the way scientists think about and treat cancer.
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Lewis Cantley: Why do virtually all men over the age of 90 develop some amount of prostate cancer whereas heart cancer is practically unheard of?
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There are some dramatic cases in which cancers have regressed or gone away on their own, which raises the bigger question of why some early cancers progress and others don’t.
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One in three Americans are diagnosed in their lifetime with cancer, a derangement of normal cell growth in which cells grow in antisocial ways, crossing natural tissue boundaries.