“How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.” The words of acclaimed physicist Niels Bohr can be thought to apply to the somewhat counterintuitive notion that by engineering an element of the human body’s wondrous natural defense...
Dr. Lowy, in collaboration with Dr. John Schiller, has been awarded the 2018 Szent-Györgyi prize for Progress in Cancer Research for their development of a preventive vaccine for human papilloma virus, which is the leading cause of cervical cancer cases. See why Dr. Lowy thinks...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="65357" img_size="full" alignment="center" css=""][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""] One in eight women in the United States will be diagnosed with breast cancer at some point in her life. In fact, other than skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common cancer amongst women in the country. Unfortunately, the two...
In 2018, there will be an estimated 1.7 million new cases of cancer in the United States. Over 600 thousand people will die from the disease. Over $140 billion will be spent for national cancer care. With all of this being said, over 70% of...
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/4"][vc_single_image image="23034" img_size="large" alignment="center" style="vc_box_shadow_border"][/vc_column][vc_column width="3/4"][vc_column_text css=""]You wouldn’t think it, but the science cannot be denied: One of the newest and most promising drug candidates for cancer was actually developed all the way back in 1972. For malaria. “There were some hints in the literature,...
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/4"][vc_single_image image="23008" img_size="large" css=""][/vc_column][vc_column width="3/4"][vc_column_text css=""]“I think it was 2006,” recalls Michael “Mickey” Stein on his chronic follicular indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma. “I was taking a shower and felt a lump in my groin. I have a degree in psychology, but a lot of it was...
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_single_image image="70190" img_size="medium"][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text]Lucy Elicker Stanovick, an English professor, writer, wife, and mother of two, received the news that she had Stage IV metastatic breast cancer in April 2008. Although active, health-conscious, and just 42 years old, she was suddenly faced with her mortality:...
[caption id="attachment_25667" align="alignnone" width="1050"] 2010 Szent-Györgyi Prize Selection Committee Member Webster Cavenee, Ph.D., Winner Peter Vogt, Ph.D., and Selection Committee Chair Ronald DePinho, M.D.[/caption] The term “game changer” didn’t come into English usage until 1993, and since then it has been driven into the ground from...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="22907" img_size="full" alignment="center" css=""][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]To bring attention to leukemia and lymphoma, Congress in 2010 designated September as Blood Cancer Awareness Month. These diseases are diagnosed in 14,000 people monthly within the United States. However, with advances in treatment and technologies yielding earlier and earlier...
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