fighting cancer podcast

A podcast from the Cancer Research Foundation. Join us as we interview researchers, innovators, and entrepreneurs who are fighting cancer through their bold ideas in science and technology.

The CRF has been investing in cancer science for over the past 60 years – and we wanted to make the research and the proposals come to life. To have conversations from our past young investigators, researchers, grantees and innovators in cancer science to find out their inspiration, to discover their moment of wanting to join the fight against cancer, and to hear their story.

Episode 000: Introduction to the Fighting Cancer Podcast

Welcome to Fighting Cancer: A Podcast from the Cancer Research Foundation. Join us as we interview researchers, innovators, and entrepreneurs who are fighting cancer through their bold ideas in science and technology.

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Episode 001: Jonathan Barnes, PhD

This episode we have a conversation with Dr. Jonathan Barnes, PhD. He is a recipient of the 2017 Young Investigator Award from the CRF. The Barnes group is developing a universal ‘plug-and-play’ type of drug delivery system to fight cancer.

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Episode 002: Lucy Godley, MD, PhD

In this episode, the Executive Director of the Cancer Research Foundation, Zanna Nikitas sits down with Dr. Lucy Godley to discuss the Fletcher Award she was given as well as exciting updates on her lab at the University of Chicago. They also have a conversation on her role as a women in science and the influences and mentors Dr. Godley was inspired by in her work.

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Episode 003: Milan Chheda, MD

This episode we speak with Dr. Milan Chheda from the Washington University in St. Louis. We spend time talking about his Young Investigator Proposal focused on Glioblastoma, working with a team to discover a way to potentially use the Zika virus to treat brain tumors, and what he is most excited about in Cancer Research.

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Episode 004: End of Year Thoughts, A Reflection of Hope

As the year winds down, I often sit back and reflect of some of the moments of the past year from a personal perspective and from the perspective of the work we have been doing at the Cancer Research Foundation.

This year, and the past couple of years were filled with many emotions from a personal level, where several of my own family members and friends were affected by cancer. Though some have thankfully survived, a few have not – and it leaves an everlasting wonder of what can we do to avoid this in the future. In a sense, I want to dedicated this end of year note as a tribute, to my family and friends that are no longer here, but also as a sign of hope for those who are still here and affected by their loss. And to all those that I don’t know personally, I’ve seen many stories posted over the past year of cancer affecting your lives and I want to also dedicated this to whatever situations you are going through.

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