Does a new treatment for leukemia herald a new era in drug discovery?
Brent R. Stockwell, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Biological Sciences and of Chemistry at Columbia University, an Early Career Scientist of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and author of The Quest for the Cure: The Science and Stories Behind the Next Generation of Medicines, which was called “critical reading” by Robert Bazell, chief science correspondent at NBC News and “an absolute page-turner” that manages to “distill a complex, changing field into a beautifully written, well-crafted story” by Siddhartha Mukherjee, winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Read more
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