--- title: How the U.S. Can Get Cuba’s Cancer Vaccine 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. canonical: https://time.com/3855350/us-cuba-cancer-vaccine/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-12T16:01:21.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:43:34.992Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How the U.S. Can Get Cuba's Cancer Vaccine og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/3855350/us-cuba-cancer-vaccine/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How the U.S. Can Get Cuba's Cancer Vaccine twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How the U.S. Can Get Cuba's Cancer Vaccine by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute May 12, 2015 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute May 12, 2015 4:01 PM UTC **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/) 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/) 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) 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/) 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) By Marika Shioiri-Clark in the Los Angeles Times  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _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":"2026-08-19T07:43:34.992Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/3855350/us-cuba-cancer-vaccine/","keywords":["Innovation","Cuba","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"}}]}] ```