The first half of the year is always exciting in the cancer world between results presented at AACR in April and ASCO in June, making it a good time to review the state of early detection science in mid-2019. This is long, so I’ll break it up into a …
In the final section of my recent keynote address for Cancer Research UK‘s 2019 Symposium on Oesophageal Cancer, I departed from my usual rants on technical rigor in science to discuss the political barriers that keep us from effectively translating and scaling new diagnostics in …
It’s not always easy to figure out the relative importance of our various preferences. For example, when trying to find a place to move, do you care more about price, walkability, parking, proximity to work, safety, …? Or when trying to find a job, is it about salary, equity, the …
I was recently invited by OpenEye Scientific to speak at their 19th CUP meeting - a scientific conference focused on challenges of computational modeling in drug discovery. It was my first time back at CUP in 8 years, since I switched fields from computational chemistry into computational …
Drug discovery is a hard business, and like any other hard business, there are a lot of people who’d not only like to improve it, but think they have a clever idea to completely change how it’s done and catapult us into a new world of productivity. It …