If there is a branch of science in which basic and applied research have traditionally lived with their backs to one another, this is the one that has to do with health. While at one extreme, biochemistry, molecular biology and genetics announced the Century of the Life Sciences, at the other end clinical researchers lived wrapped up in a thousand and one trials and empirical approaches for new therapies. The roles have now changed. And the field of oncology is seeing the best results.

Xavier Pujol Gebellí | 25 june 2010