“Patients are counting on us, and this remains the best time to be involved in cancer research,” W. Kimryn Rathmell said to The Cancer Letter.
Rathmell spoke with The Cancer Letter’s Paul Goldberg on her first day as CEO of The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute.
“We can now study, in patients, things that previously before we could only try to guess at that,” Rathmell said. “There are discoveries we can make in real time that will change and impact patients like next year and the year after, not decades from now, not in another generation.”
In this episode of In the Headlines, Paul Goldberg, editor of The Cancer Letter, and Jacquelyn Cobb, associate editor, call in from the American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting to discuss the happenings at the meeting, Paul’s conversation with Rathmell—and FDA’s empty booth.
Rathmell encouraged young investigators to stay the course.
“Money may be scarce, but the ideas are not,” Rathmell said. “There are great ideas out there. I would encourage anyone who is interested in this career path to really double down. Really, the boldest ideas are the ones that are going to be funded, and to do innovative work and to be enthusiastic about the work that they're doing.”
Stories mentioned in this podcast include:
We catch up with Kimryn Rathmell on her first day as CEO at OSUCCC – James
The other side of the patient portal: Reflections from a cancer center leader, writes Ruben Mesa
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A transcript of this podcast is available: https://cancerletter.com/podcastc/20250604-rathmell/
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