During my great “swamp artist” adventure (aka midlife crisis) in Louisiana a few years back, one of my close friends planned a visit from Texas. I met Willem Overwijk several years back when he was new in Houston by way of Amsterdam. Recruited to the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Dr. Overwijk’s specific area of proficiency, in layman’s terms, is cancer immunotherapy and vaccines research, tumor immunology, with specific emphasis how immune cells can be manipulated to destroy cancer. It’s wildly complex, technical, intellectual, and important. At any rate, he is tall and handsome, gregarious, exceedingly meticulous, a bit eccentric, …continue reading