Wei Zhang: World AML Awareness Day takes on a special meaning this year
Wei Zhang,
“Today, April 21, is the World AML Awareness Day. It takes on a special meaning this year as the emotions are still very raw since the passing a week ago from AML of the one and only Ilya Shmulevich, who has impacted the lives of so many.
His courage and approach to life since diagnosis are just beautiful as he had always shown. In recent years, Ilya became active in AML research and was actually just awarded a new R01 on AML last year. Ilya had not only given his talents to the study of AML but also his blood and marrow for the research and for experimental therapy. He knew what he was doing might not benefit himself but he had a bigger purpose in changing the AML world for the better.
Ilya’s AML diagnosis also rekindled my interest in AML research, which was where I started my cancer research career decades ago in Albert Deisseroth’s laboratory. I am also excited to join my Wake Forest colleague Tim Pardee in a new project on AML funded by an R21 grant.
On this AML Awareness Day of 2024, I remember my dear brother, a brilliant mind and a kind soul, a pillar in cancer systems biology field, a motivator for us to work toward a world where cancer will not take so many from their loved ones.”
Source: Wei Zhang/LinkedIn
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