Chris Bourne ’17 was a 1,000-point scorer on the men’s basketball team and is now in his fourth year as a PhD candidate at the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. He is part of a collaborative program with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and is researching ways for the immune system to fight cancer. He recently received an NIH F31 Fellowship with the National Cancer Institute.

Chris talks with Brandon Hodnett on this episode of Then & Now about his research, how to understand scientific publications, reminiscing about his time playing basketball at Swarthmore, and being an admitted bandwagon fan in the NBA.

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