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DR. GUY WEINBERG
Professor of Anesthesiology
University of Illinois College of Medicine
A clinical anesthesiologist by trade, Guy Weinberg became involved with Telluride Science in the 1990’s attending workshops on the molecular mechanisms of general anesthesia.
His focus shifted when his 14-year old son Isaac was diagnosed in 2008 with a rare form of cancer, epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (EHE). Dr. Weinberg started to conduct his own research on EHE but was not making effective progress. Then, in 2017, he started a Telluride Science workshop with Dr. John Lamar of Albany Medical College has and they have co-hosted workshop every year since. This cancer is rare but the information learned from studying it can be applied to many other, more common types of cancer such as breast, lung, and pancreatic. Since its inception, the workshop has led to significant advances in our scientific understanding of EHE, and increased funding for research of the disease.
Dr. Weinberg has experienced first-hand the power of Telluride Science. “There aren’t many organizations that provide the same context for doing high quality science. Most scientific meetings are big events and the science tends to get lost in the networking and politics. There is scant opportunity for collaboration. Telluride Science turns all of that on its head.”
Dr. Weinberg, Dr. Lamar and Dr. Salamon, a co-founder of Telluride Science recently published an article about the impact of Telluride Science workshops in a special issue of the journal, Cancers.
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