“We’re at the end of the beginning,” is how Anna Barker, Ph.D., speaking during a May 20 panel discussion, described our progress in the War on Cancer. Sanford-Burnham hosted the event, What Will it Take to Cure Cancer?, at the San Diego Natural History Museum, as a benefit to its President’s Circle members, donors who contribute $1,000 or more annually. Dr. Barker, former deputy director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), sat alongside Erkki Ruoslahti, M.D., Ph.D., distinguished professor and former president of Sanford-Burnham, Ron Andrews, president of medical sciences at Life Technologies, and Robert Abraham, Ph.D., senior vice president at Pfizer Worldwide Research. Together, they represented expertise along the continuum from basic scientific discovery to the production of drugs.
Panelists Dr. Erkki Ruoslahti, Dr. Anna Barker, Ron Andrews, and Dr. Robert Abraham with moderator Dr. Mary Walshok