Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2019-09-23
Books mentioned on Regina Barzilay: Deep Learning for Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
Regina Barzilay is a professor at MIT and a world-class researcher in natural language processing and applications of deep learning to chemistry and oncology, or the use of deep learning for early diagnosis, prevention and treatment of cancer.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Emperor of All Maladies
The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee is a comprehensive, Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of cancer that explores the long history of the disease from ancient medical records to modern treatments.
Discussed“I've maybe a year ago read a book called the emperor of all maladies it's a book about it's kind of a history of science book on how the treatments and drugs for cancer were developed”
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Americanah
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a critically acclaimed contemporary novel that follows the journeys of young African characters navigating identity, race, and culture between their home countries and the United States.
Discussed“let me give you an example of a book which is not kind of which is a fiction book is a book called Americana and this is a book about a young female student who comes from Africa to study in the United States”
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An American Sickness
Discussed“there is a book that I am reading it's called American sickness by Elizabeth was in town and I got this book from my clinical collaborator dr. Connie Limon and I said I know everything that I need to know about American health system but you know every page doesn't fail to surprise me”
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Flowers for Algernon
Flowers for Algernon by David Rogers and Daniel Keyes is a poignant science fiction novel that follows a mentally disabled man who undergoes experimental surgery to drastically enhance his intelligence, mirroring the journey of a laboratory mouse named Algernon.
Discussed“coming back to another book that I love flowers for algernon have you read this book”
