Keven Stonewall- How to Cure Cancer at Age 17
“Passion is Love, and Love is Passion”
-Keven Stonewall
Keven Stonewall @thatkevenguy is a researcher, motivational speaker, and pre-med student with a B.S degree in Biology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also a native of the Southside of Chicago. His national notoriety began when he was only 17 years old when he conducted research at Rush University Medical Center to determine how aging affects certain immune responses in mice when exposed to colon cancer cells. This groundbreaking research, which many scientists credit to Keven, has earned him respect in the science and medical community, and earned him numerous awards and honors including presenting at the Intel International Engineering and Science Competition, and Society for Immunothereapy of Cancer.
He has given a TEDx Talk and have been featured by BET, USA Today, MSNBC, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago’s Windy City Live TV Show, New York Daily News, Diversity in Action, Blavity, and other media outlets. Keven was also featured in AllState’s Worth Telling campaign, and received several distinguished awards including Jet Magazine’s 40 under 40: Activism Award and WVON 1690 AM/Ariel Capital, 40 under 40 Gamechanger Award.
In this interview we dive into
- Keven’s world and learn more about his background
- How he aligned himself to be a part of the scientific community
- How to grind to get the things you want in life
Enjoy!
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People/Things Mentioned in Episode
Dr.Cchristian Capitini , Oncologist
Keven- You are the Author of Your Life video
Click Here For more details on Colon Cancer Screening
Click Here For more details on Prostate Cancer Screening
Show notes
3:53 – Interview Starts
5:50- Keven talks about what he does for fun + his love for dancing
6:45- Keven talks about his interest in sports and growing up. Talks about sports scholarship and choosing between sports & academics
13:15- Keven talks about how he got started in research
18:20 – Keven talks about educating himself about cancer
19:50 How Keven actually started to come up with discovery
23:30- simplified explanation on what Keven did in the lab with the mice
26:00 – Keven talks about having a natural curiosity and the benefits of having freedom to create
27:12 minutes around -talks about going against the grain and not doing the same things that all his friends were doing at age 17 and how he handled it
33:02 – keven talks about the story of his friends uncles passing and the effect it had on him and his friend
43:35 – keven talks about how he stayed so focus from the age of 14
46:26 minutes- keven talks about whats next in his cancer research
53:40- keven talks about how he got on to ted talk
55:42- what keven whats to be known as when he leaves this world
56:22- tips on how other people can find their passion, being vulnerable
58:52- what kevens daily dream would be like
1hr 4 min 10sec.. what kevens morning routine looks like
1hr 6 min who comes to kevens mind when he thinks of the word successful
1hr 7 min- quotes that Keven lives his life by