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...committee that designed ASCO's program. "It's correct that there were more Phase I studies in the clinical science symposia," he told me. "And we did that deliberately. It was a way to inform both practicing [cancer doctors] and clinical researchers about early data and the scientific background of new targets. We now have a huge amount of scientific research and much more knowledge in depth of why we should be targeting a particular gene or protein and how these drugs might work...
...thought, this is cool, things like this could actually happen,” she says. “There are schools that will overlook everything and offer free tuition and admission despite your background...
...We’re actually interested in talented people, broadly talented people, from every kind of background and from every place in the world,” he says. “When we’re looking at possible students for Harvard, we’re really focusing on their academic, their extracurricular, and their personal talents—not on what a person’s citizenship...
However, this was also the year that I became most aware of how my different background and perspective marked me. It’s not that my fellow executives always disagreed radically with me about the need for social diversity in our selection of people to profile, the importance of racial diversity in our cover photo shoots, and the need to avoid making judgments about what lifestyles and knowledge were normative. With a few exceptions, the other execs mostly agreed. But, also with few exceptions, I was the person who pointed out these issues and passionately pushed for more accurate...
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