Dad’s death spurs S’porean in cancer vaccine research in US

Dr Noor Faezzah Baharom, 31, works as a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health. PHOTO: NOOR FAEZZAH BAHAROM
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WASHINGTON - A year and a half after she moved to the United States to start work on a cancer vaccine, Dr Noor Faezzah Baharom received the news that her father had been diagnosed with stomach cancer.

His battle with cancer and death in March this year, just over 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.

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