Harvey Black | Mar 17, 2002 | 7 min read
Managing blood vessel development by preventing its growth from tumors in cancer patients or stimulating its development in cardiac disease patients is apparently an idea whose time has come. William Li, president and medical director of the non-profit Angiogenesis Foundation in Boston, notes that using such control as a way to fight disease interpenetrates highly varied fields of medicine. "Angiogenesis is a common denominator in many of society's most significant medical conditions," says Li.