Posts by George Riddle

CCF sponsored a half-day symposium at the University of Chicago last week.  Here are some notes and impressions.  It’s not complete, and perhaps I got some of it wrong.  I’d appreciate comments and corrections. Stacie Lindsey outlined the history and mission of CCF.  I can’t help but feel that her work and that of her…

Charles Graeber, The Breakthrough: Immunotherapy and the Race to Cure Cancer, Twelve, 2018. “Cancer kills millions of people every year and is one of humanity’s greatest health challenges. By stimulating the inherent ability of our immune system to attack tumor cells James Allison and Tasuku Honjo have established an entirely new principle for cancer therapy.…