Researcher Spotlights
Ann Partridge, MD, MPH, a medical oncologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, is the recipient of three Conquer Cancer Foundation grants including a 2001 YIA, 2003 CDA, and a 2010 ICCG. She has used the support she received from the Foundation to work towards improving care and outcomes for young women with breast cancer.
Robert Orlowski, MD, PhD (1997 YIA) of The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center discusses how funding from the Conquer Cancer Foundation led to FDA approval of a new drug to treat Multiple Myeloma, giving hope to thousands of patients and their families.
To recognize Breast Cancer Awareness Month, watch how we are working together to conquer breast cancer worldwide.
Leslie A. Doros, MD of Children’s National Medical Center (2011 YIA) discusses how she became interested in oncology, what it is like to be a cancer survivor herself, and how her YIA research may help children around the world who suffer from Pleuropulmonary Blastoma, a very rare type of cancer.
Learn how Ezra Cohen, MD, FACP (2003 YIA and 2005 CDA recipient), of The University of Chicago is inspired by his patients to continue his research in head and neck cancers.

