Blog

Research, analysis, and policy proposals

Where cancer biology meets health equity, one post at a time.

01

Why a Cancer Drug's Price Tag Has Almost Nothing to Do With What It Cost to Discover It

How pharmaceutical pricing actually works — and why the gap between R&D cost and sticker price is where policy has the most leverage.

02

What Tumor Complexity Can Teach Us About Who Gets Left Out of Precision Medicine

Precision medicine promises treatment tailored to your tumor's biology — but tailored treatment is only useful if you can access it.

03

New York's Coverage Gap: Where Cancer Treatment Access Actually Breaks Down

A ground-level look at where New York's Medicaid system fails families financially, and why it only covers four types of cancer.

04

From Bench to Bill: How a Lab Discovery Becomes (or Doesn't Become) an Affordable Treatment

Walking through the pipeline from basic research to an approved, priced drug — and where affordability gets decided.

05

The Hidden Cost of "Innovative": Rethinking How We Regulate Computational Drug Discovery

What touring a computational drug discovery platform teaches you about speed, cost, and where regulation still lags behind.

06

Safety-Net Medicine: What Community Pediatric Practices Get Right That Insurance Systems Don't

What a treat-regardless-of-ability-to-pay pediatric practice can teach larger healthcare systems about access.

07

Clinical Trials Without Zip Codes: Why Trial Access Maps onto Income, Not Just Biology

Who actually gets enrolled in cancer clinical trials, and why geography and income shape access as much as diagnosis does.

08

Policy Prescriptions: Three Concrete Proposals for Expanding Cancer Treatment Access in NYC

My flagship policy piece — three specific, actionable proposals rather than just a diagnosis of the problem.