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Sessler Lecture Series Report
Sessler Lecture Series Report
CHEM-120-510
a way to help out cancer patients and he was one himself. His company focused on clinical trials
with people who had metastatic brain cancer at first. In 2015 this company was bought by
AbbVie for 21 billion dollars.
Overall Sessler’s lecture was entertaining and was interesting to see the different ways
people in the scientific community are trying to solve the mystery of cancer. Sessler did mention
that his research is still ongoing and that a lot of things could change in the coming year for
cancer research. I wish he would have gone into more detail about what experiments he was
actually a part of instead of coming over his collaborators' research.