Profiles

When Dr. Hosams Abu Meri walks into a clinic room in Latvia, patients see something very unusual. The person doing their gastroscopy or colonoscopy is not only a gastroenterologist, he is also the Minister of Health of the Republic of…

“Yes,” she said. “I was named Judy after St. Jude.” When she was old enough to learn who St. Jude was, she remembers the moment it landed with a child’s blunt logic. “When I became old enough and learned about…

When Isabel Deprince, a formerly successful model, describes the moments she feels most like herself, she doesn’t mention spotlights or runways. She talks about being alone in her studio, sleeves rolled up, paint drying on her hands. Painting, she says,…

I expected to meet a Minister defined by data, evidence and pragmatism. And I did. What I did not anticipate was the depth of empathy behind those qualities, or the disarming honesty of someone who describes himself, with a smile,…

When I started my fellowship in Italy, I knew I would meet Professor Andrea Ferrari, the Legend whose work I had studied line by line. I thought I was prepared. I had read his papers… But nothing in the literature…

If you ask Robert Weinberg how his career began, he will not tell you a story of grand plans or carefully plotted ambition. He will tell you it was “a series of accidents.” “Most people have a series of goals…

The idea of ​​creating a "European School of Oncology" came to Umberto Veronesi in the mid-1970s, when the Americans announced the effective implementation of the strategic plan against cancer signed by President Nixon in 1973, the National Cancer Act. He…

Her Royal Highness Princess Ghida Talal of Jordan is widely recognized as one of the Arab world’s leading voices in the fight for equitable cancer care and health justice.  Born in Lebanon and shaped by the resilience forged during her…

Hello, Dr. Knaul, it’s a great honor to… “Please, call me Felicia,” she interrupted immediately, her warmth cutting through the formality. Felicia Marie Knaul is one of the world’s most influential voices in cancer care advocacy, a leader who doesn’t…

It was an interview during which I simply couldn’t stop smiling, amazed by the brilliance of Prof. Paul Mischel, yet he speaks about his discoveries with such ease, clarity, and enthusiasm that you can’t help but be carried along. Here…