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Heroes who are fighting prostate cancer
DR. MICHAEL LISANTI: Lab leader
Lisanti, a researcher at Jefferson's Kimmel Cancer Center, has won global acclaim for some breakthrough discoveries about how prostate-cancer cells operate. He's also making strides in breast- cancer research.
At 44, the Center City resident is already high on the list of the world's top cell biologists. Everyone above him "is basically a Yoda," a colleague confided.
DR. ROBERT UZZO: Urology's Indy Jones
Uzzo has studied in London and Moscow, served as a Public Health Service doctor at a Navajo reservation in Arizona and taken a six-week berth as a ship's doctor on an Antarctic expedition. Here, he's acting chairman of the department of surgical oncology at Fox Chase Cancer Center.
Among other achievements, he has helped pinpoint how selenium can make prostate-cancer cells self-destruct in the laboratory. He lives in Ambler.
