Can Financial Engineering Cure Cancer? | Andrew Lo | TEDxCambridge

We are making breakthroughs almost weekly in our understanding of cancer and other deadly diseases, both in how to treat and – in some cases – how to cure them. So why is funding for early...

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Translator: Eriko T Reviewer: Hélène VernetIf you are under 30, you probably use Facebook all the time.I'm not part of that demographic,so I don't.But if I did, these are some of the photos that would be on my Facebook page:pictures of my friends, colleagues, and my mom.These people have one other thing in common besides me,they all died of cancer within the last few years.Cancer is personal for me, as I am sure it is for many of you.So, by a show of hands,how many people here have dealt with cancer directlyor have friends or family that are dealing with cancer?Yeah. Cancer touches all of us.So, I know that grieving is supposed to have five stages:denial, anger, bargaining,depression and acceptance. I probably won't make it to acceptan...