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Occupation: President & Chief Executive Officer,
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Alternative career choice: High School Teacher

What do rock stars and scienctists have in common: Self motivation

I tend to approach life: Optimistically

Biggest misconceptions about me or my work: That we don't have fun

Worst part-time job ever: Baseball umpire

Longest med school study session: 14 hours

Best moment in medicine/research: Meeting my Wife

ABOUT MY RESEARCH:

Disease Area: Cancer

Research Area: Cancer is now the number one killer worldwide. We focus on understanding how cancer cells steal nutrients from other cells in order to grow.

Science Impact/Accomplishments or Goal: Cancer cell metabolism: Cancer cells are gluttons and without a constant food supply, they are more prone to die than normal cells. We try to understand and exploit the metabolic addiction of cancer cells in hope of developing better therapies.

Research Description: The Thompson laboratory has proposed that the basis of human cell survival is determined by the inability of cells to take up nutrients in a cell-autonomous fashion. We believe the lack of a cell intrinsic mechanism to regulate nutrient uptake provides the first and most fundamental barrier to cell transformation.

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