TheoryLab

TheoryLab

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TheoryLab episodes

  • Matthew Meyerson and Alison Taylor - Mentor and Mentee
    Drs. Matthew Meyerson and Alison Taylor of Dana-Farber Cancer Center talk with the American Cancer Society about:
    2:30 – Challenges of being a mentor
    4:27 – One of the most important things in science
    6:08 – On mentoring a scientifically diverse group
    8:52 – What’s the one thing you would change about being a postdoc?
    11:08 – On learning to manage people and be a mentor as a postdoc
    20:04 – How to be the best mentee/mentor you can be
    24 min
  • Katy Rezvani on the clinical trial she's leading
    Dr. Katy Rezvani of MD Anderson talks with the American Cancer Society about the:
    1:30 – Biden Cancer Summit and Cancer Moonshot at MD Anderson.
    2:55 – Urgency and excitement in immunotherapy
    4:40 – On why she decided to go after natural killer cells instead of T cells
    8:13 – Could there really be an off-the-shelf CAR NK cell?
    9:12 – Three advantages of CAR NK cells
    13:26 – Clinical trial she’s leading at MD Anderson
    15:00 – Crucial early support from ACS
    17 min
  • Katy Rezvani on the clinical trial she's leading
    Dr. Katy Rezvani of MD Anderson talks with the American Cancer Society about the:
    1:30 – Biden Cancer Summit and Cancer Moonshot at MD Anderson.
    2:55 – Urgency and excitement in immunotherapy
    4:40 – On why she decided to go after natural killer cells instead of T cells
    8:13 – Could there really be an off-the-shelf CAR NK cell?
    9:12 – Three advantages of CAR NK cells
    13:26 – Clinical trial she’s leading at MD Anderson
    15:00 – Crucial early support from ACS
    17 min
  • Eliezer Van Allen - Full Interview
    Dr. Eliezer Van Allen of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute talks about the:
    2:15 – Core principles of his lab
    3:45 – Challenges of team science; how to build strong culture
    8:00 - Patient-driven research & liberation of data and metastatic prostate cancer project
    11:38 –Empowering patients to liberate and access their clinical data; mechanism for them to donate data to future research
    13:10 – reservations that patients have about sharing data
    15:27 - Cancer immunotherapy, genomics, and big data
    18:40 – How far the field has come in past few years (from exomes to genomes, bulk tumor samples to single cells)
    19:50 – Why it’s team science at its best—putting medical oncology fellows alongside AI experts
    21:05 – Why a cancer patient would be glad to know ACS is funding computational oncology
    25 min
  • Eliezer Van Allen - Full Interview
    Dr. Eliezer Van Allen of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute talks about the:
    2:15 – Core principles of his lab
    3:45 – Challenges of team science; how to build strong culture
    8:00 - Patient-driven research & liberation of data and metastatic prostate cancer project
    11:38 –Empowering patients to liberate and access their clinical data; mechanism for them to donate data to future research
    13:10 – reservations that patients have about sharing data
    15:27 - Cancer immunotherapy, genomics, and big data
    18:40 – How far the field has come in past few years (from exomes to genomes, bulk tumor samples to single cells)
    19:50 – Why it’s team science at its best—putting medical oncology fellows alongside AI experts
    21:05 – Why a cancer patient would be glad to know ACS is funding computational oncology
    25 min

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American Cancer Society scientists and grantees discuss the most critical questions in cancer research -- in language that we can all understand.