Guest:
Anna Barker, Co-Director, Complex Adaptive Systems Center, ASU Bio and Contact Info
Listen (3:21) Andy's challenge
Listen (4:39) The year of immunotherapy
Listen (4:53) iSpy 2 and a new approach to clinical trials
Listen (6:42) The swan
Listen (6:35) A coalition of the willing
Listen (5:14) Six reasons biomarkers fail
In 2003, the then Director of the National Cancer Insitute, Andrew von Eschenbach, issued a challenge: “to eliminate the suffering and death from cancer, and to do so by 2015.”
Anna Barker is the former Deputy Director of the National Cancer Insitute, and she was at the meeting when Dr. von Eschenbach issued his challenge. Now at the end of 2014, we talk with Anna about the challenge and how far we have come. She offers her vote for the three most important developments in cancer this past year.
