I was really excited to get to talk about the role that mentorship plays in women’s leadership development. It’s a topic that I’ve thought a lot about, and also that I’ve benefitted from, and that I think is not always applied with enough intention. There is an art to mentorship, and I want to share some of how that has helped me navigate career transitions and pivot to leadership roles.
As we are all aware, the new presidential administration is moving rapidly to change how science, including health sciences, will be conducted and funded by the federal government, including research supported by the National Institutes of Health.
Former NCI Director W. Kimryn Rathmell was awarded the American Cancer Society 2025 Medal of Honor.
The American Association for Cancer Research named its newly elected 2025 class of fellows of the AACR Academy.
Kathy Giusti, founder of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation and two-time cancer survivor, will join Thyme Care as a strategic advisor for patient experience.
Breast cancer surgeon Tari A. King was appointed as chief surgical officer for the cancer service line at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University and Emory Healthcare. Joining Emory on July 14, she will also be the chief of the newly formed Division of Breast Surgery in the Department of Surgery at Emory University School of Medicine and co-director of Winship’s Glenn Family Breast Center.
Matteo Paz, 18, of Pasadena, CA, won the top award of $250,000 in the 2025 Regeneron Science Talent Search, the U.S.’s longest-running and most distinguished science, technology, engineering, and math competition for high school seniors (The Cancer Letter, March 7, 2025).
The Stephenson Global Pancreatic Cancer Research Institute, established to advance early detection, innovative treatments, and groundbreaking research for pancreatic cancer, has launched a call for nominations and Letters of Intent for two award opportunities.
Cervical cancer diagnoses among rural U.S. women have been increasing since 2012, after years of decreases, according to research from MUSC Hollings Cancer Center and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
The American College of Radiology Lung Cancer Screening Registry is expanding and will evolve into the Early Lung Cancer Detection Registry in late 2025.
