At Pfizer, cure hunters like Mace Rothenberg are working to find the specific ways that cancers spread, to develop treatments that target specific pathways. The goal? Therapies that target individual cancers (of which there are thousands).

Check out the above video to learn more about this incredible cancer-fighting method, and watch all the episodes of Cure Hunters.

More Cure Hunters episodes:

Episode 1 | How Are Medicines Made?

Episode 2 | Harnessing The Immune System To Fight Cancer

Episode 3 | The Itch That Rashes

Episode 4 | NASH: The Silent Killer

Episode 6 | Building a Mirror Molecule

Episode 7 | Hunting Rare Diseases

Episode 8 | Take Your Breath Away

Episode 9 | Clinical Trials: Driving The Hunt Forward

Episode 10 | A Constant Threat

Episode 11 | Engineering Health