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Audio Recording that Further Support's Connections to Text. 

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This audio clip dives into discussing further the ongoing process that Monje is utilizing to create new therapies for childhood brain cancer. It also serves as another reference point to support the Uncommon Genius text.

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E74 | Michelle Monje: New therapies for brain cancer by Stanford Radio

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The Future of Everything with Russ Altman:
"Michelle Monje: New therapies for brain cancer"

A deepening understanding of how the healthy brain grows and functions is leading to exciting new brain cancer therapies that are both more effective and easier on patients.

Brain cancers are known to be elusive and clever killers, but Michelle Monje, associate professor of neurology and neurological sciences, is helping to find new treatments through a better understanding of how healthy brain cells develop and how cancers often hijack those very same processes in order to grow themselves.

Monje says that the last decade has seen tremendous progress in our understanding of how cancers thrive and in the development of new drugs and therapies to kill the killers. Unfortunately, many chemotherapy drugs powerful enough to kill cancers also cause lasting impairment of the patient’s cognitive abilities, a condition known among doctors and patients as “chemobrain.”

Monje is on the hunt for more effective and safer treatments for brain cancer. One exciting development, she says, is a quickly evolving field known as immunotherapy, which harnesses the body’s own immune system to recognize and to kill cancers. She’s also exploring a new drug that can help specific brain cells, known as glia, counteract the harmful effects of chemobrain.

Originally aired on SiriusXM on March 23, 2019.

Recorded at Stanford Video.

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Connection #3: Remaining Patient and "Loose" within the Creative Process.

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Connection #3: Remaining Patient and "Loose" within the Creative Process.

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-The above video presents Monje's hopefulness and ability to remain loose within the creative process. She realizes that her discoveries will take time and will affect treatment options over the course of my years.
-Shekerjian (1991) notes, "Creative people have a high tolerance for ambiguous circumstances, and they embrace unstructured time" (p. 33).
-Monje started conducting her research with starting testing trials on rats. Her treatment process and discoveries are still ongoing!
-In the MacArthur article (2021), it notes in the "In Michelle's Words" section that she is opening up new pathways for the study of cancer and  transforming cancer treatments in children. This information can be read about further here.
-In another article by the Noble Hill Gazette, Monje states that she hopes to continue utilizing the funds granted from the fellowship to continue to make progress in this field (Katz, 2021). This article is linked here.

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Michelle Monje, Neuroscientist and Neuro-Oncologist | 2021 MacArthur Fellow

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-Shekerjian (1991) notes that creative people must also be willing to make changes.
-Monje was willing to look beyond herself to create a larger impact on society, specifically within the realm of childhood cancer patients (Shekerjian, 1991).
-Monje notes her largest source of courage to tackle this daunting task is her cancer patients.
-In her own words, Monje states, "Seeing children fight cancer with their own courage provides me the framework for the job that I need to do" (MacArthur Interview, 2021). The section to read more about Monje's desire for change can be found through reading the section "In Michelle's Words." The article can be found here.

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-Monje was willing to go against the "status quo" within her cancer research (Shekerjian, 1991, p. 16).
-Skekerjian (1991) notes in the Uncommon Genius that creative people must be willing to go beyond the current level of experiences and expertise that is present in their field.
-As a top neurologist in her field, Monje had to step out and develop her own knowledge and and practices on how to provide better treatment options for children with brain cancer.
-In the video linked above, Monje is quoted as saying, "I was astonished that there was not a lot of information or treatment currently out there" (MacArthur Interview, 2021).
-In her MacArthur Fellowship focus page, Monje notes that she had to go beyond what she had previously been taught about cancer in order to discover more effective treatment options (MacArthur Interview, 2021). The link to this statement can be found in the "In Michelle's Words" section of her page linked here.

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Michelle Monje, Neuroscientist and Neuro-Oncologist | 2021 MacArthur Fellow (Extended)

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-She was granted the fellowship in 2021 for her work with pediatric cancer and cancer treatments in children.
-She sought out to better understand childhood cancer and how it affects the brain of children.
-When granted the fellowship allowance, she sought out to improve the current therapy treatments offered to children.
-This specific MacArthur winner interest me because I am currently teaching a student who battled leukemia last year. I wanted to hear innovative approaches on how I could teach this student who is experiencing brain fog in my first-grade classroom.