Our Norwegian cruise ship
Well, it
turns out that March 8th was International Woman’s Day – and I
completely missed it. Not, however, The Guardian, one of the UK’s premier
newspapers. In the article cited below
it relates how a comely lass from Belfast, Shannon Beattie by name, has
received a grant of over $65,000 to fund a study of how to detect ovarian
cancer early, using “biomarkers in the blood”.
More power to her!
Trouble is,
the Fred Hutch outfit I tried to help tried the same trick, in the same way, to
the tune of $15 million over five years – and failed. I hope Dr. Beattie has important new insight,
or at least is damned lucky!
I guess a
lot of my skepticism is totally irrational, based as it is on the fact that her
photo (below) seems to imply that she is about 18 years old. After all, she is said to be the CEO of a
biotech spin-off from Belfast University.
Maybe the northern Irish just grow up faster.
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