The American Cancer Society estimates that nearly 2 million Americans will be diagnosed with cancer in 2022 and more than 609,000 people will succumb to the disease—that’s roughly 1,670 deaths per day in the United States alone.1 As nearly 40% of the population will be diagnosed with cancer at some point during their lifetimes, it […]
THE CANCER FIGHT, FROM HIROSHIMA TO HOUSTON Dr. Ritsuko Komaki was living with her family near Osaka when the atomic bomb exploded on her native Hiroshima in 1945. But the family returned to the devastated city when she was four, and Komaki grew up a witness to the long-term effects, which likely contributed heavily to […]
It’s not often that an academic figure holds a place in pop culture, but Dr. C.J. Peters, professor of pathology and of microbiology and immunology, and biodefense director of the Center for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, has turned that trick. In 1989, when he was […]
KAREN L. DAVIDSON 