Cancer biologist Tuomas Tammela discusses his path to becoming a cancer researcher and the focus of his lab.

Research from the lab of cancer biologist Tuomas Tammela shows that some lung cancer cells retain a “memory” of the healthy cell where they came from — one that might be exploited to make an emerging type of lung cancer treatment called KRAS inhibition more effective.

Identified in mice, this unusual cell state emerges early during tumor evolution and gives tumors enormous malleability.