Soon-Shiong’s promise
Patrick Soon-Shiong. Photo Even before moving the Los Angeles Times to El Segundo, Patrick Soon-Shiong was drawing national attention to his adopted city Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong’s decision, after purchasing the Los Angeles Times in June, to move the newspaper from its century-old headquarters in downtown Los Angeles to El Segundo garnered national attention. But that is not the most audacious announcement Soon-Shiong has made since making El Segundo the hub of his wide-ranging interests. Last September, during his acceptance of the 2017 El Segundo Champion of Business award, he declared, “El Segundo may become the center of biotechnology of the U.S., if not the world,” And then he announced his intention to cure cancer. “Every individual is born with cells that kill cancer. We have discovered that cell, what we call natural killer cells. Imagine if we could target natural killer cells to track down and literally explode cancer in the pancreas, brain or any other cancer target. This is not a pipe dream,” he said. Soon-Shiong showed the Champion of Business dinner attendees an animation video of natural killer cells blowing up a cancerous tumor. “Those are not basketballs,” he said…
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