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Sir Walter Bodmer: Genetics, Cancer & the Future of Humanity | Tomorrow Today

aired Jul 28, 2026 · 115.0m
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Summary

Without the Genome Project, we could do nothing in the way that we're now studying any medical problem, any health problem. So it's fundamentally a genetic disease at the cellular level.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of like, think, it's, including: He's probably the world's most renowned oncologist, genetic scientist.

Key takeaways
  1. 01Well, it wasn't a memory of what I had in Germany
  2. 02It was an all-boys' school who said, well, you know, if he's any good at maths, he should go into the Math 6 because that's where they all get scholarships, to Cambridge and Oxford
  3. 03I mean, I enjoyed the maths and that's what I did and eventually got a scholarship to study maths in Cambridge in a way that is one of the examples of where being unsuccessful was
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