--- description: Cuba's biotech and medical research power, why there won't be an Uber for everything, why we should stop climbing Mt. Everest and more. title: How the U.S. Can Get Cuba's Cancer Vaccine image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ## Ideas Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Innovation](/tag/innovation/) ## Innovation Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # How the U.S. Can Get Cuba's Cancer Vaccine by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 12, 2015 4:01 PM CUT by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 12, 2015 4:01 PM CUT **1\.** [**Cuba has a treatment for lung cancer, and now we can get our hands on it.**](http://www.wired.com/2015/05/cimavax-roswell-park-cancer-institute/ "undefined") By Neel V. Patel in Wired **2\.** [**There won’t be an Uber for everything.**](http://fortune.com/2015/05/11/why-there-wont-be-an-uber-in-every-industry/ "undefined") By Boris Wertz in Fortune **3\.** [**Stop climbing Mount Everest.**](http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/05/jan-morris-no-one-else-needs-climb-everest-let-s-turn-it-memorial "undefined") By Jan Morris in the New Statesman **4\.** [**Move over rooftop solar. Rooftop algae can generate power, cut CO2 and produce oxygen.**](http://weburbanist.com/2015/05/10/urban-algae-canopy-produces-a-forests-worth-of-oxygen-daily/ "undefined") By Web Urbanist **5\.** [**Phantom flushing wastes water, and here’s how to fix it.**](http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-shioiri-clark-drought-phantom-flushes-20150510-story.html "undefined") By Marika Shioiri-Clark in the Los Angeles Times  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/ "undefined") _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3855350/us-cuba-cancer-vaccine/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3855350/us-cuba-cancer-vaccine/"},"headline":"How the U.S. Can Get Cuba's Cancer Vaccine","datePublished":"2015-05-12T16:01:21.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:04:01.995Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/3855350/us-cuba-cancer-vaccine/","keywords":["Innovation","Cuba topic","Power","Uber","Biotech","lung cancer","vaccine"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3855350/us-cuba-cancer-vaccine/","name":"How the U.S. Can Get Cuba's Cancer Vaccine"}}]}] ```