Oncologist

🇮🇹Umberto Veronesi

Politics

1925–2016

"Prevention is within reach of everyone. And here are recommendations: abstain from smoking, eat less, eat mostly vegetarian foods, an active mind and body, and follow individually designed early diagnostic regimens."

🇺🇸Frederick Pei Li

Medicine

1940–2015

"I have been studying inherited susceptibility of cancer through affected families. The goal is to identify genes that are involved in cancer development."

🇺🇸Robert Gallo

Medicine

b. 1937

"Appropriating her work wasn’t the worst of it. This delayed the development of testing and spread the HIV epidemic through the world, killing millions."