Soon-Shiong Envisions Better, Ultimately Cheaper Cancer Care
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
Describing biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong as a big thinker is an understatement given the goals that he and his web of businesses have for improving the way cancer patients are treated, and now he's enlisting the help of other biopharma companies to test immunotherapy hypotheses.
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