"We are sitting on a pharmacological cornucopia that is still completely unexplored."
- DR. BALDOMERO OLIVERA,
Research Scientist of the
Year (2007), Harvard Foundation, on the biopharmaceutical
potential of the Philippines' biodiversity
"I think that it is extraordinarily important to realize that all ages of these women are important to vaccinate [against HPV], but if you want to see a return in the natural-disease reduction more quickly, we really need to emphasize adding in the women over the age of 12."
- DR. DIANE HARPER, professor, Dartmouth Medical School, on
the importance of the cervical-cancer vaccine across all ages
"Some kids think it's his fault that mom died. When that happens, you have to confront the issue, make the kid realize that death is natural and it's no one's fault."
- DR. ELIZABETH PINEDA, clinical psychologist, Philippine Foundation for
Breast
Care, on dealing with children's grief after the death of a mother
"I wanted to cry, but I couldn't. Thoughts ran in my head-where to get the money and how my mother would take it…. I was also all alone. And of course, I was thinking about vanity, how I would look afterwards."
- PEAR IMPERIAL, on her reaction after being diagnosed with breast cancer
"If you believe that breast cancer is curable, there is a big chance you would go and get a biopsy. If you did not, you won't."
- DR. ADRIANO LAUDICO,
project director, Manila Cancer Registry, on
how many women react after screening positive for breast cancer
"From our observation, most [local government units] tend to prioritize curative treatment in general, which is more expensive and which we discourage."
- DR. FRANK DIZA, program director for cancer control, Department of Health
"Our ability to knock out-to lose the function-of a gene in the mouse genome has been absolutely critical in understanding the genetic basis of human diseases in all areas."
- STEVE BROWN, leading scientist, Mammalian Genetics Unit,
British Medical Research Council, on the Nobel Prize-winning
"knockout gene" research of Mario Capecchi, Oliver Smithies, and Martin Evans
"I would like to see whether I can extend this technology to other organisms that are much more difficult to study. How do we fight diseases through our immune systems? Some organisms do that much better than others, and how do they do that?"
- DR. FRANK CAPECCHI,
professor of human genetics and biotechnology,
University of Utah, on where he'd like to bring his Nobel Prize-winning
research
"There was a comic strip that had an inventor in it, and I thought that was neat stuff, and I'd be an inventor. And that's what I've been."
- DR. OLIVER SMITHIES, Nobel Prize-winning professor of pathology, University of North Carolina
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