Kamala Harris’ views on health care were shaped by her mother, cancer researcher Shyamala Gopalan By Rohan RajeevJuly 26, 2024

https://www.statnews.com/2024/07/26/shyamala-gopalan-breast-cancer-researcher-kamala-harris-mom/?utm_campaign=morning_rounds&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8N9yQfCqgyEZVfp-L6GvbuOAlmUAnkjxELtIAdsu0rO_HhPa9nTyCPOIObRR0XG8_DxOae3RO75lEz_VtCTarpzaQ3lA&_hsmi=317386118&utm_content=317386118&utm_source=hs_email This past Mother’s Day, Kamala Harris posted a picture of herself and her sister in brightly colored coats, standing next to their mother on a sidewalk. “My mother, Dr. Shyamala Gopalan, had two goals in life: to cure breast cancer and to raise my sister and me,” she wrote. Gopalan was best known for her research on the relationship between progesterone receptors and breast cancer. She worked at institutions including McGill and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, served on the President’s Special Commission on Breast Cancer under Clinton, and peer reviewed for the NIH before her death in 2009 from colon cancer. It’s uncertain what the future of Biden’s Cancer Moonshot and the NIH might be under an administration change. With Harris as the likely Democratic presidential nominee, it’s interesting to see what she has said about her mom, health care, and thinking like a scientist, even as a policymaker. Go deeper with this story from STAT’s Rohan Rajeev. https://www.statnews.com/2023/10/05/cancer-moonshot-biden-questions/?utm_campaign=morning_rounds&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_b8JMmrqqTAZ30cx-A-qhl9QucBtRwh-xUpZEcLOvoHfE-407wO8zphYHT35baOMefgmnEjvPTfnglSUFTOAwzkrgs2w&_hsmi=317386118&utm_content=317386118&utm_source=hs_email Can the National Institutes of Health navigate multiple storms and rebuild its bipartisan support? By Nick ManettoJuly 3, 2024 https://www.statnews.com/2024/07/03/can-the-national-institutes-of-health-navigate-multiple-storms-and-rebuild-its-bipartisan-support/?utm_campaign=morning_rounds&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--ZrI3J3rwFSnHG87ZCsGvW6Gz1nJyQByBMPiKXj8GM99iMNoCmFXv1JfdRFGjTAEiM7KOGlWyjGdUeW68K0Oc3YDCryg&_hsmi=317386118&utm_content=317386118&utm_source=hs_email