The Research Evangelist

On today's episode, meet Dr. Michael A. Caligiuri. Dr. Caligiuri is President of City of Hope National Medical Center and the Deana and Steve Campbell Physician-in-Chief Distinguished Chair , a world-renowned physician, scientist, builder, innovator, leader and visionary at City of Hope. A leading researcher in immunology, lymphoma and leukemia, Dr. Caligiuri dedicates himself to developing the ne...

On today’s episode, meet Dean Wetherbee . Dean is the Managing Director of Creative for Ten Bridge Communications in Boston, MA, which bills itself as Biotech’s Communications Partner, an agency guiding biotechs through all stages of growth. Dean has deep experience in strategic and creative marketing. He’s worked in a global agency working with large pharma, emerging biotech, nonprofits and medic...

On today's episode, meet Dr. Estela Rodriguez, a triple board-certified hematologist and oncologist at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami. At Sylvester, Dr. Rodriguez works as part of a multidisciplinary team of cancer experts and researchers. Dr. Rodriguez has a special interest in the early detection and treatment of lung cancer and how cancer affects women. Li...

On today's episode, meet Heidi and Dr. Pierre Onda. Heidi holds a master's degree in Health Education and has been a fitness trainer for 16 years. She is also a stage 3 lung cancer survivor. Pierre is a primary care physician at Kaiser Permanente Colorado and also holds a master's degree in Public Health. Together they started a grassroots movement of lung cancer patients, caregivers, advocat...

On today's episode meet Missi Bjork . She is an RN in the Patty Ribakoff Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Massachusetts General Hospital for Children in Boston. She has a Nursing degree from Niagara University and has been practicing nursing at MGH for 35 years in pediatrics and the NICU. She was also a caregiver to a lung cancer patient (me) so we are going to ask her about her experience a...

On today's episode, meet Dr. Charu Aggarwal. Dr. Aggarwal is the Leslye Heisler Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Hematology-Oncology Division at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine. She is an active member of the Abramson Cancer Center (ACC) where she serves as Physician Leader for the clinical research program for Airways Malignancies. Dr. Aggarwal specializes in th...

On today's episode we're talking about precision medicine in lung cancer. Meet Priti Hegde, Ph. D., Chief Scientific Officer of Foundation Medicine, Inc. , a life science company that offers a portfolio of comprehensive genomic profiling products that help physicians make more informed care decisions. She is passionate about innovation in cancer research and translating innovations to precision me...

On today's episode, meet Dr. Henning Willers. He is the Director of the Thoracic Radiation Oncology Program at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Willers has a busy clinical practice focusing on the care of patients with thoracic cancers of various types while also spending time in the laboratory. He is active in clinical, physics, and biology rese...

On today's episode, meet Patrick Lilley, CEO of Liquid Biosciences. He has spent the last 25 years driving growth and innovation in software, healthcare, big data, and wireless. Patrick is inventor of over 75 patents and trade secrets in bioinformatics, diagnostic biomarkers, signal processing, artificial intelligence, and specialized algorithms. Today he discusses how his company is using mathema...

Dr. Narjust Duma is a faculty member in the Division of Hematology, Medical Oncology and Palliative Care at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. She is a medical oncologist at the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center with clinical and research focus on thoracic malignancies.  Her clinical interests include the care of women with lung cancer including thei...

Dr. Sarah Goldberg, MD, MPH is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the division of Medical Oncology at the Yale School of Medicine and Yale Cancer Center. She specializes in the treatment of thoracic malignancies. Her research interests include personalized medicine and immunotherapy for non-small cell lung cancer and identification of biomarkers that predict response to treatment. For her, it's...

Kimberly Richardson created a unique program at the University of Illinois - Chicago (UIC) Cancer Center called Survivors Advising Scientists Education Program. Tova Bergsten is a 4th year MD/PhD Candidate at UIC College of Medicine working on ovarian cancer research in the lab of Joanna Burdette. Kimberly's goal is to create true collaborations between those researching cancer and those who are s...

Pamela Gardner is the Founder and CEO of Biotech Vendor Services, Inc., which helps companies & organizations in life sciences streamline their vendor management through customized on-site and virtual scientific events. She is also on a mission to help others tackle the tough equity issues of female empowerment and systemic racism to break through the barriers that exist within the system.

Adam Marcus, PhD, is Winship 5K Research Professor in the Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology at Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Marcus serves as Associate Director of Basic Research and Shared Resources for Winship Cancer Institute. He is also passionate about keeping middle school kids in Georgia enthusiastic about science.

On today's episode meet Rebecca Heist, MD, MPH, a Medical Oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School. Her research focuses on clinical trials of novel agents. As part of the Termeer Center at MGH, she leads first-in-human studies of targeted agents across a broad range of tumor types, with a particular focus in lung. Her commitment to h...

On today's episode I catch up with my friend Johnathan Whetstine from the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia. He is a distinguished professor, Program Leader of the Cancer Epigenetics Program, and Jack Schultz endowed Chair in Basic Science at Fox Chase. Johnathan's passion for science, and for his family is palpable.

On today's episode, I speak with Francesco G. Salituro, Ph. D., Founder of Salituro MedChem Solutions who has been a scientific leader in the pharmaceutical industry for over 34 years, including stints at Sage Therapeutics, Agios Pharmaceuticals and Vertex. He has successfully driven drug discovery programs across multiple therapeutic areas and has over 60 scientific publications and over 80 issue...

On today's episode, I get to catch up with my friend Dr. Brendon Stiles. Brendon is a thoracic surgeon at New York-Presbyterian Hospital and an Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine. Brendon also serves as the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Lung Cancer Research Foundation, a national nonprofit focused on lung cancer research and advocacy. He's active...

Dave Bjork is a lung cancer survivor and patient advocate known for his passionate views on the need to support biomedical research. During 20 years of nonprofit advocacy and research fundraising, he became known as the Cancer Research Evangelist for his life mission to connect individuals, biopharma companies, patient groups, academic institutions and other key influencers to forge strong partner...