As the chief scientific officer of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society for the past eleven years, it has been a privilege to lead a group of scientists that has doled out more than $600 million for cutting-edge hematologic oncology research. These dollars went to more than 1,000 research projects through initiatives like our biomedical research grant programs and LLS’s venture philanthropy, the Therapy Acceleration Program (TAP).
A study led by The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center—Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute found the drug pirtobrutinib worked as well as another drug, ibrutinib, in the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia and small lymphocytic lymphoma, and people in the study responded better with pirtobrutinib.
