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Published in: Clinical and Translational Medicine 1/2016

Open Access 01-12-2016 | Editorial

Cancer Moonshot 2020: a new march of clinical and translational medicine

Author: Xiangdong Wang

Published in: Clinical and Translational Medicine | Issue 1/2016

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Excerpt

The global scientific community is going to blast off to the Moon again with the clear aim to cure cancer 47 years after man first stepped onto the lunar surface. President Obama signed a Presidential Memorandum at the beginning of 2016—White House Cancer Moonshot Task Force—and called upon the world to “cure cancer once and for all”. …
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Metadata
Title
Cancer Moonshot 2020: a new march of clinical and translational medicine
Author
Xiangdong Wang
Publication date
01-12-2016
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Clinical and Translational Medicine / Issue 1/2016
Electronic ISSN: 2001-1326
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40169-016-0091-8

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