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Taking Better Aim at Cancer: A Conversation with Gerard Evan
September 12, 2008
Like Isaac Newton long before him, UCSF's Gerard Evan, PhD, has been elected to an elite club of scientists, the British Royal Society. Indeed, he stands on the shoulders of scientific giants who went before. But Evan is armed with laboratory tools that his scientific forebears could never have imagined. In turn, his work seems destined to give a leg up to the latest generation of pharmaceutical researchers who have set their sights on cancer.
Evan's refined feats of genetic engineering in mice permit cancers - and potential treatments for eradicating those cancers - to be probed in ever more powerful ways. Based on his latest lab findings, Evan thinks he's found a very promising drug target - one that has largely been sidelined.