What opportunity is there for a traditional engineer to cure cancer (or the like)? As far as I can tell, we can only work indirectly to enable the chemists and

What opportunity is there for a traditional engineer to cure cancer (or the like)? As far as I can tell, we can only work indirectly to enable the chemists and biologists who work directly with cancer. Which is good, but you do that by making lab equipment, not by working in a lab.