Jennifer Carlson, associate vice president for external relations & advocacy at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center–Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute, was named inaugural chair of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network’s Government Affairs Committee.
In the absence of the federal funding, cancer research will be leaning on private funders. But few private funders have the freedom to ask fundamental questions—questions whose answers may not have an immediate clinical impact but can dramatically advance scientific knowledge.
