"When the Cure is a Virus: Reprogramming a Killer to Fight Cancer"--Dr. Clodagh O'Shea

"It takes a monster to kill a monster." So says Dr. Clodagh O'Shea of California's Salk Institute. In her talk, sponsored by Telluride Science, she details the work her lab does to reprogram viruses to attack cancer cells while leaving normal cells untouched. Now in early human trials, this sort of treatment could revolutionize the way medicine deals with cancer. O’Shea is a professor of molecular…