Vice President Joe Biden visited Duke on Wednesday where he toured a lab and held a roundtable discussion on the national cancer “moonshot.”
The goal of the moonshot is to double the rate of progress on cancer research and treatment to “eventually end cancer as we know it.”
Matthias Gromeier, MD, was among the Duke doctors who met with the Vice President. Gromeier’s work in cancer immunotherapy has gained national attention as his use of genetically modified poliovirus shows promise in treating brain tumors in clinical trials.
Biden, whose son Beau died last year of a brain tumor, told Gromeier he is “very familiar” with his work.
Biden also met with Stephanie Lipscomb, a patient whose brain tumor was treat successfully using the modified poliovirus.