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Ted’s Take: Ted’s Take: Coalescing or Convergent Thinking
I’d like to introduce the concept that coalescing or “convergent thinking” may be detrimental within an organizational setting. By this, I mean that individuals working in the same or similar space often tend to think similar thoughts.

Ted’s Take: We all have a role to play in climate change research
One would think that research about climate issue is one area that people would come together and commit to doing it right – collaboratively, transparently and without ego.

Why aren’t we talking about this? Key questions raised by the Medicare Trustees Report
The Medicare Trust Fund (TF) Annual Trustees report on solvency drives much of the discussion about Medicare payments. Therefore, it’s important and appropriate to understand the underpinnings of the report in order to best understand and engage in the discussion.

Applying Nanoparticles and the Immune System to Fight Cancer
New JKTG-funded work features JKTG long-time collaborator and Johns Hopkins’ Researcher, Robert Ivkov, Ph.D.

Ted’s Take: Bureaucracy and the Supertanker
Bureaucracies are very large and complex organizations, with governments the highest forms of bureaucracy. These entities have their own “biological”, characteristics formed over decades and decades of evolution.

Ted’s Take: Approaching Research Differently (and why you should do the same)
Much of our research in breast cancer involves data and analytics; data are collected and analysis drives our work. Increasingly, we deploy mathematical models for data analysis
and work to publish the results, along with conclusions, to help others learn from our research and apply relevant pieces to their work.

JKTG Foundation President and Founder, Ted Giovanis, Gives $35M to Study the Most Common Cause of Cancer Death: Metastasis
The Foundation is excited to announce today the creation of the Giovanis Institute for Translational Cell Biology, with a $35 million gift from researcher, philanthropist and race car driver Ted Giovanis.

Ted’s Take: Offense or Defense? When Regulations Become Two-Way Players
Legislation sets out the law, but it is in fact the regulatory agencies that interpret that law through regulations.

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