Before we get into your book, during this COVID crisis, how are you holding up, personally?ĭo you still have to see some patients for cancer treatments? It is such an honor to get to speak with you. Here are Ron’s questions from the interview: She is the author of The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last published October 2019. Raza has published her original clinical and basic research comprising over 300 peer-reviewed manuscripts in high profile journals like Nature, New England Journal of Medicine, Cell, Molecular Cell, Cancer Research, Blood, Leukemia. Raza started collecting blood and marrow samples on her patients in 1984 and now her Tissue Bank, the largest and oldest in the country with >60,000 samples, is considered a unique national treasure. She is considered an international authority on pre-leukemia (MDS) and acute leukemia and is one of those rare physician-scientists who divide their time equally between caring for patients and supervising a state-of-the-art basic research lab which is well-funded by multiple large grants.ĭr. Azra Raza is the Chan Soon-Shiong Professor of Medicine and Director of the MDS Center at Columbia University in New York.
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