17.16 - Howard Federoff, EVP Georgetown University Medical Center, is being introduced.

17.18 - Federoff introduces Lou Weiner, Director of the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University, and Richard Schlegel, Chair of GUMC’s department of pathology.

17.19 - Federoff: “Cura personalis is a concept we all know very well: care for the whole person”.

17.20 - “The holistic concept is a dialogue we’ve been engaged with in Georgetown”.

17.20 - “The vaccine costs 120 dollars a shot and you need three shots.”

17.21 - “We need something cheaper and more stable.”

17.21 - “In order to understand the concept of genomics, the environment is one of the factors”.

17.22 - “In order to build the excellence you have to count on the best individuals”.

17.24 - “A foreign antigen is a killer cell”

17.25 - “The balance of the immune system is critical for health.”

17.26 - “The nature of the immune response is crucial to the prevention.”

17.27 - “There’s a boosting response related to your immunological memory”.

17.27 - “The new system is related to the way cancer spreads.”

17.28 - Federoff introduces Dr. Richard Schlegel.

17.29 - Schlegel: “The best way to tackle cancer is to prevent it”.

17.31 - Dr. Schlegel explains a graph about papilloma virus (HPV) cases.

17.32 - “The best way to prevent is with the HPV vaccination”.

17.33 - “The current vaccine is the VPO”.

17.34 - “This vaccine looks exactly like the virus, and it’s very effective”.

17.35 - “The current vaccine covers 70% of the virus”.

17.36 - “We are using a second generation vaccine which is very stable and it will be cheaper because you make it with bacteria instead of virus”.

17.37 - “We need a vaccine with a cost of 1-2 dollars to make it affordable for other countries. We are in the range of 300 dollars a shot”.

17.39 - Dr. Lou Weiner starts his speech.

17.40 - Weiner: “I hear about the genomics revolution and the true revolution is to be able to win the battle against cancer”.

17.41 - “I would argue that the best way for cancer treatment is to prevent cancer”.

17. 42 -”There are 3 million deaths worldwide per day due to smoking”.

17. 45 - “Cancer vaccines could prevent other diseases.”

17.46 - “It has never been proved that cancer vaccines can cure people with advanced cancer”.

17.47 - “I’m trying to make a case here that cancer prevention makes sense”.

17.49 - “But this is a simple thing to say and a hard thing to do”.

17.50 - “And needless to say, the vaccine should be safe in the normal population.”

17.53 - “This is the blueprint where we are going to prevent cancer in the future”.