The concept of using a patient’s own immune system to eradicate invasive cancers has been under investigation for many decades, but recent breakthroughs in the field of cancer immunotherapy have revolutionized the landscape of treatments for many aggressive cancers such as metastatic melanoma, lung cancer, and kidney cancer. Advances in our understanding of how cancers […]

Mark Emery grew up in Ocala and spent much of his youth in the woods often at the Drake ranch. He worked at Silver Springs wrestling alligators and milking rattlesnakes at the Ross Allen’s Reptile Institute. Later he went to work for Jordan Klein Film and Video. Jordan Klein Sr. built the first underwater cinema […]

Reception Starts at 5:30 PM Talk Begins at 6:00 PM The human species is now facing existential threats brought on–just to name a few–by climate change, technical disruption, hijacking AI, and bioterrorism. It is ordinarily believed that such threats stem from political and economic causes alone. In this talk, I’ll be arguing that their chief […]