Online Extra: Inside Judah Folkman's Lab

Dr. Judah Folkman, 72, is one of the world's most renowned cancer researchers. He's often called "the father of anti-angiogenesis," because he was one of the first to theorize, some 40 years ago, that cancer could be stopped if a tumor's cells could be deprived of new blood vessel growth, or angiogenensis, thus starving the tumor to death.

When Folkman published a seminal paper on cancer anti-angiogenesis in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1971, the medical community was extremely skeptical. The field also ran into a lot of criticism after an infamous story on the front page of The New York Times in 1998 asserted that Folkman's research might lead to a cure for cancer, a wildly overoptimistic analysis at the time.