ANGELIKA AMONEditors of The Scientist have been scouring the grounds of the American Association for Cancer Research’s flagship conference—being held in New Orleans this week—to find the most interesting presentations, but we simply can’t cover it all. So we’ve enlisted insight from some thought leaders in cancer research.
MIT’s Angelika Amon, who studies aneuploidy in normal and cancer cells, presented this year’s AACR-Women in Cancer Research Charlotte Friend Memorial Lectureship. She spoke with The Scientist by phone after returning home from the conference.
The Scientist: To your mind, what are some of the hottest areas of cancer research right now?
Angelika Amon: Definitely, I think, immunotherapy. For the first time there is actually a real hope that this may work and that it could actually provide a cure. “Cure” in the sense of not dying of the disease, rather than cure as five-year survival, which is the clinical definition. I think the developments are tremendous . . . most people realize this. The topic was very prominently featured [at AACR 2016].
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