How a Nobel Prize winner moves from data to discovery
How do you develop the next big idea? You pull together people who are both curious and passionate.
09 October, 2019
- In 2018, Dr. Jim Allison was awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering an effective way to attack cancer through immunology.
- In pursuing this discovery, he recruited other scientists who were curious, who cared about and were committed to science. "You have to put up with a lot of failure, 'cause if you're not, you're probably doing boring stuff," Allison says.
- When it comes to developing a theory that works, it's critical to ask as many people as possible on a project for their hypotheses on why a particular outcome may take place. By pulling together these ideas, and testing them, better data can be accumulated.
<p><strong>Jim Allison is the subject of <a href="https://www.breakthroughdoc.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Jim Allison: Breakthrough</em></a>, a documentary narrated by Woody Harrelson that brings filmmakers and scientists together to tell the story of a Nobel Prize-winning cancer discovery that changed the world. <em>In cinemas September 27th, 2019.</em></strong><br></p>
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