WIKIMEDIA, KWZAs the editors of The Scientist wandered the halls of the Washington, DC, convention center and attended some of the talks given by the 18,000 attendees at this week’s American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) conference, we jotted down some snippets of wisdom—and humor—that we heard. Here are a few of our favorite quotes from this year’s meeting.
—Harold Varmus, NCI Director, in a special lecture at AACR
—Rockefeller University President Mark Tessier-Lavigne, speaking about funding cuts to the National Institutes of Health during a rally for biomedical research in Washington, DC
—Stephen Friend, Sage Bionetworks, on improving communication between cancer researchers
—James Watson, of double-helix fame, speaking about recent rejections from several journals
—Jim Doroshow, National Cancer Institute (NCI), in response to Charles Sawyers “provocative questions” about N of 1 trials
—Elaine Mardis, Washington University School of Medicine, on her approach to cancer research using a variety of sequencing methods to identify targetable mutations
—Andrea Califano, Columbia University, on N of 1 trials
—Charles Sawyers, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, on the difficulty getting N of 1 trials published
—Stephen Friend, Sage Bionetworks, ...
