my name is professor michio kaku. â i'm aprofessor of theoretical physics at the city university of new york and i specialize insomething called string theory. â i'm a physicist. â some people ask me the question, "what has physics done for me lately? â i mean, do iget better color television, do i get better internet reception with physics?" â and theanswer is yes. â you see, physics is at the very foundation of matter and energy. â wephysicists invented the laser beam, we invented the transistor. â we helped to create thefirst computer. â we helped to construct the internet. â we wrote the world wide web. â inaddition, we also helped to invent television, radio, radar, microwaves, not to mention mriscans, pet scans, x-rays. â in other words, almost everything you see in your living room,almost everything you see in a modern hospital, at some point or other, can be traced to aphysicist. now, i got interested in physics when i was a child. â when i was a child of eig
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Cancer Selective Proteins
our first speaker today is neil caporaso. he got his undergraduate degree and then a masters degree and then a medical doctor degree from rutgers in 1980. so he did a residency in internal medicine and in 1983 saw the light and came to nci and now he has to move his office every other year. [ laughs ] just like the rest of us. so, in 2011, he became chief of the geb, genetic epidemiology branch and he is in the division of cancer epidemiology at the nci and he's going to talk to us about epidemiology translational research and clinical oncology. take it away neal. >> thank you so much. so i'm going to give you folks a broad overview of epidemiology and a little bit about the basics. but i'm also going to touch on some of the directions that epidemiology is mutating into. i have a fair number of slides and i'm not going to go into depth in all of them, you'll be happy to know but i'll try and emphasize the ones that are most entertaining. so i'm go