And it did — the 2019 Dr Josef Steiner Cancer Research Prize — for Professor Dr Nik Serena Nik Zainal, a Malaysian at the University of Cambridge’s Department of Medical Genetics, for her work on cancer genome interpretation. Dr Serena, as the web page says, is a mother of two, loves music and being outdoors, and fights the 40s with kung fu. Her late father — Datuk Dr Nik Zainal Abidin Nik Abdul Rahman — was the country’s first cardiologist. She may not have won the Nobel prize for medicine, but the Dr Josef Steiner Cancer Research Prize is otherwise called the “Nobel prize in cancer research”. Today, the New Straits Times celebrates them — as we did in our NST Leader: “Glorify them” on Oct 14.

Source: New Strait Times October 18, 2019 16:07 UTC