Senescence: live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking corpse

ec1a7c75d9e59bedad73782c1c4b3e91 National Cancer Institute {"start": "2018-11-28T20:00:00", "end": "2018-11-28T21:00:00"}

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Norman E. Sharpless, M.D.
Sharpness, Norman E., M.D. Director

In addition to serving as director of NCI, Dr. Sharpless continues his research in understanding the biology of the aging process that promotes the conversion of normal self-renewing cells into dysfunctional cancer cells. Dr. Sharpless has made seminal contributions to the understanding of the relationship between aging and cancer, and in the preclinical development of novel therapeutics for melanoma, lung cancer, and breast cancer.

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