Cancer is quantum: Studies show cancer cells may occupy limited, shared states like quantized energy levels

Andrea Califano began his career as a physicist. But that's not why he's now calling cancer a quantum disease.

"We're really just following the data," says Califano, the Clyde '56 and Helen Wu Professor of Chemical Biology at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and head of Biohub, New York.