Yibin Kang is a professor of molecular biology at Princeton University.

His resume is loaded with scientific feats, but it's the research he's dedicated his life to which could result in one of the most lauded accomplishments in medical history.

Kang might be the man who cures cancer one day. The professor is studying a gene called MTDH and its central role in how cancer spreads. He's come up with a way to stop this gene.

It is this unique approach that could lead to a medical breakthrough that would defeat most of the major cancers.

Anyone who has lost a loved one to cancer or is dealing with it now, wants hope. His work offers a great deal of it.

Here's "12 Minutes with Yibin Kang.”