Avi Maimon

A protective protein, which was generally known to be effective against blood clots, was found to be capable of inhibiting the most violent means of cancer in the human body - metastasis. Prof. Tal Borshtin-Cohen, the leader of the research, believes that the surprising discovery explains why there are quite a few anti-cancer treatments that fail: "The understanding that protein S helps the body fight metastases is a warning light for anti-cancer treatments, which are designed to inhibit this protein's pathway"