Athena Aktipis on The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps Us Understand And Treat Cancer.

Athena Aktipis on The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps Us Understand And Treat Cancer.

Cancer evolved as unicellular life evolved into multicellular life. With that conception of cancer as part of the evolving ecosystem of living cells, Dr. Athena Aktipis takes us on an exploration of cancer and how to manage it. 

Athena Aktipis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Arizona State University, where she heads Aktipis Labs. She is a participating investigator at the Arizona Cancer and Evolution Center. She is co-Director of The Human Generosity Project, studying cooperation across systems from human sharing to cancer. She chairs the Zombie Apocalypse Medicine Alliance, yes, something real and fascinating, synthesizing thinking across a wide spectrum of disciplines. She is the host of the podcast, Zombified, a science-based discussion of the things that can take over our brains.

Her book is The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps Us Understand And Treat Cancer.