James Amatruda, MD, PhD, never set out to become a fish farmer.
“My goal is not to cure a fish; it’s to cure a child,” Amatruda, head of basic and translational research for the Cancer and Blood Disease Institute and Dr. Kenneth O. Williams chair in cancer research at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, told Healio. “I see the impact these cancers have on children and their families every day, and that spurs to us to go back to the laboratory and work that much harder.”
As it turns out, much of the hard work at Amatruda’s lab involves some incidental fish