By NBC NEWS
Ever heard of the JAK-STAT pathway? Maybe not, but without its discovery, we wouldn’t have dozens of medications, including cancer treatments and even that COVID vaccine. Dr. George Stark is part of the team that discovered it in 1992.
Dr. George Stark previously helped discover the JAK-STAT pathway in 1992, and is now part of a team on the verge of creating an ointment that cures skin cancer.