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Dad's death spurs Singaporean in cancer vaccine research in US
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Dr Noor Faezzah Baharom, a postdoctoral fellow at the US National Institutes of Health, said her father's cancer diagnosis strengthened her conviction to translate her research into something that can help people. Her father died in March this year.
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Charissa Yong US Correspondent In Washington, Charissa Yong
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A year and a half after she moved to the United States to start work on a cancer vaccine, Dr Noor Faezzah Baharom received news that her father had been diagnosed with stomach cancer.
His battle with the ailment and death in March this year, just more than a year after his diagnosis in December 2018, strengthened her resolve to research and develop a cancer vaccine in the hopes of helping other patients.
