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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
WILLIAMS CHARLEY SECKLER in the midst of the first-ever trial for a DMD treatment at Johns Hopkins University. Photo courtesy the Seckler Family by Dan Morrell There's this picture of Charley Seckler from last summer that his mom has sent...
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- 07 Oct 2021
- News
Bringing Light to the Fight
part thanks to Smyth, who joined the volunteer board of the fledgling Breast Cancer Foundation NZ in the mid-1990s and became its chair in 2009. Her work with the charity has been informed by her business career, she says. A partner at...
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- 08 Aug 2013
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Cause Marketing Gets Personal
resulted in a breast cancer diagnosis, and Langer's battle against the disease led her to volunteer at the then-pioneering National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations (NABCO) in 1988. "We had the first...
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- 07 Jan 2022
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Learning to Fight
establish the Sontag Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting brain cancer research and brain cancer patients and caregivers. In the last 18 years, the foundation has awarded more than $35 million to...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Founding a bone marrow donor bank that saves thousands of lives
Peter Harf (MBA 1974) transformed Joh. A. Benckiser SE, a small, privately held German company into a global powerhouse, but it’s his cofounding of Delete Blood Cancer DKMS that he considers his most important role. Since 1991, the...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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A 'reluctant entrepreneur' draws on the HBS network
Cancer survivor Kathryn Giusti (MBA 1985) gives a talk about being a "reluctant entrepreneur" in founding the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation. (Published April 2014)
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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
data and machine learning to improve health care. Kelley, who recently received a Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship at HBS, aims to bring fast and accurate diagnoses to cancer patients around the world. “The majority...
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Susan Young
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
New HBS Alumni Board Members
worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he was also a partner. Mendell is a member of the executive committee of the Cancer Research Institute, vice chairman of the New York division of the National Mentoring Partnership, and a trustee of...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
line and on improving the quality of patient care. In 2005, Porter developed a multiyear learning partnership with MD Anderson, regularly ranked as the top cancer treatment center in the United States. The...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Opinion: Making It Better
communication—is widely used, and cancer care is now delivered in a hub-and-spoke model, a system that is much cheaper and more convenient for patients because it is built around local treatment. At the hub, expensive advanced...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
MBA 101: HBS Commencements Pass the Century Mark
sometimes glacial pace and antiquated norms of cancer research; doubled patients’ lifespans; and raised in excess of $165 million for research. Giusti urged graduates to set goals and build a plan around their passion; choose colleagues...
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- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
December). Amgen's Epogen (a treatment for anemia in kidney dialysis patients) and Neupogen (which restores white blood cells in cancer patients) generated more than $2 billion in sales last year. As the...
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Julia Hanna
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
myeloid leukemia, a blood cancer in which abnormal white blood cells grow quickly. They comforted her by saying that the chemotherapy they were prescribing would attack the abnormal cells. And it did. But her recovery from post-remission...
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Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
then have to think about the prospects for commercialization. They have to communicate back and forth extensively. What were some of the projects? As an example, one of last year’s teams was looking at an application of quantum dots for View Details
- 20 Apr 2020
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To Build Connection in Quarantine, Clubs Go Virtual
featured speakers Clause Jensen, Chief Digital Officer and Head of Technology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and information technology author and thought leader Dan Roberts, CEO and President of Ouellette & Associates...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
A Silent Workplace Crisis
Benvenuti Photo courtesy Janet Simpson Benvenuti Although I didn’t realize it until much later, my life changed the day I agreed to become legally responsible for my 78-year-old father and my 77-year-old mother, who suffered from lung View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
world in life expectancy, at 77.9 years. Half the U.S. population does not receive standard preventive care such as cancer screening, blood pressure checks, or vaccinations. A 2007 McKinsey study found that compared with the average for...
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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
through an innovation-killing “peer review” process. The history of medicine is filled with shameful stories of “peers” who used their powers to suppress innovations: Judah Folkman, the brilliant scientist whose antiangiogenesis theory forms the basis for many...
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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
treatments of the antiviral drug Tamiflu we have ready to dispatch on an emergency basis to contain a pandemic may not be deployed in time. In the case of H5N1, is enough being done to destroy infected poultry stocks? As of December, more...
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- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
cancer still progressing, he and his wife decided it was time to stop treatment. At the age of 74, Sato-san settled in for his final stages in the heart of his home—the altar to his ancestors to his left, oxygen machine to his...
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Health, Social Assistance