Compelling Questions: Why haven't we cured cancer?
The Compelling Questions lecture series tackles a variety of current topics that affect our increasingly global society. Topics might include geopolitical concerns, scientific inquiries, and social justice subjects. Speakers will address the topic question of the month and help attendees learn more about these important questions.
This month's topic question is: Why haven't we cured cancer?
Despite decades of effort and huge investments, metastatic cancer is still usually incurable and cancer kills over 600,000 people in the U.S. every year. This talk will cover why cancer has proven to be such a hard scientific problem and why promising advances have yet to produce a game-changer for most patients. We'll discuss how recent progress in biology is enabling cancer treatment discovery. Finally, we'll talk about what the future of curing cancer may look like.
Speaker Information: Joshua Dempster, PhD
Dr. Joshua Dempster spent four years as an Army officer before entering graduate school. He completed a doctorate in physics from Northwestern University in 2016. Since then, he has joined the Cancer Data Science team at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. His current research focuses on predicting the vulnerabilities of cancers and using data from CRISPR gene editing experiments to help build the Cancer Dependency Map project.
- Date:
- Friday, November 12, 2021 Show more dates
- Time:
- 1:00pm - 2:00pm
- Location:
- Online - Zoom #1
- Audience:
- Adult YA
- Categories:
- Adult > Lecture Adult > Science Featured Event Adult > Social Justice
- Online:
- For online registrations: Event URL will be sent via registration email.