Ron De­Pin­ho rais­es seed cash for MD An­der­son col­league's work on a 'Holy Grail mol­e­cule' in can­cer, in­flam­ma­tion

Ron De­Pin­ho has blazed a wide trail in can­cer re­search. As found­ing di­rec­tor of the Belfer In­sti­tute for Ap­plied Can­cer Sci­ence at Dana-Far­ber and for­mer pres­i­dent of MD An­der­son Can­cer Cen­ter in Hous­ton — where he de­part­ed af­ter a rocky tenure which he now fierce­ly de­fends — De­Pin­ho spear­head­ed trans­la­tion­al pro­grams and man­aged, among oth­er things, to build a clin­i­cal tri­al en­gine that proved piv­otal in a num­ber of FDA ap­provals.

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