On a Saturday in late February, Hussein Abbas, M.D., Ph.D., celebrated becoming a U.S. citizen. It was nearly two decades in the making and the culmination of a journey that began when he fled a bombing in his hometown of Beirut to begin working toward his Ph.D. at MD Anderson in 2006. Along the way, he would complete multiple fellowships, return to Lebanon to pursue a medical degree, travel to Baltimore for residency, get married, welcome...