WIM no. 17 Spring 2020

מכון ויצמן למדע Steering a sea change for cancer patients Rising Tide Foundation’s quest to advance cancer research and care g L to R: Rising Tide Foundation CEO Wendelin Zellmayer and Founder Shawn Stephenson W hen Shawn Stephenson’s grandmother, Mary Brown Stephenson, died of cancer in 1982, it was a devastating turn of events for his family—both because of her loss, of course, and also because she was denied existing treatment that could have saved her life, according to Mr. Stephenson. Her own doctors in Arizona turned down her requests to be treated by a Boston physician who, the family was convinced, would have treated and possibly cured her particular formof lung cancer. Weizmann MAGAZINE Spotlight On