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...taken into the heart of the cancer cell. "The life and death of cells is being worked out, and the dozens and dozens of molecules in the body that participate in those pathways are now becoming targets for therapy," says Alan Houghton, a medical oncologist and immunologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City...
Other companies are focused on boosting the immune system with vaccines that can direct it to target cancer cells. A new vaccine developed at Memorial Sloan-Kettering binds a protein from a mollusk called a limpet to seven different types of sugars and a protein fragment found only on cancer cells. The vaccine is then mixed with saponin, a soaplike derivative from a South American tree. This witch's brew serves to annoy the immune system, revving it up enough to attack cancer cells that are carrying the same sugars and protein fragment...
...since he won the 1989 Nobel Prize for his discovery of cancer-causing genes, Varmus--now the head Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Hospital--has become an increasingly prominent figure in the scientific world...
...October 1999, Varmus, who is now 61, announced he would leave NIH to become president and chief executive of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, one of the nation's largest cancer hospitals. The move brought him closer to his two children, who live in Queens, and increased his salary almost six-fold--to nearly $1 million a year. It also meant the end of his long-time habit of bicycling to work...
Varmus declined to comment for this story, saying that he does not want to confuse people at Sloan-Kettering to whom he has made commitments. But in describing why he took the New York job to the Washington Post, he gave a list of characteristics that could be used to describ e the Harvard presidency...