Sean Parker
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Sean Parker

Connecting Cancer Research

Parker, formerly of Napster and Facebook, knows the power of networking, so he was surprised when he found that many cancer researchers didn’t collaborate. With the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, he supports and connects the world’s best cancer doctors to speed new treatments. Its work led to the first approved gene immunotherapy for blood ­cancers, as well as a Nobel Prize this year for immune-­based cancer drugs (see Allison and Honjo). —Alice Park

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