Discovery to Delivery: Town Hall focuses on Future of Cancer Research

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More than 150 participants gathered for a Town Hall-style meeting at UofL Health Care’s Ambulatory Care Building to hear top national experts discuss the future of cancer research.

A seven member panel examined how we as a society can facilitate the rapid transfer of promising cancer drug and treatment discoveries from the laboratory to the patient’s bedside.  Panelists represented government regulators, federal funding agencies, researchers, patients and private industry – bringing a holistic perspective to the process of getting promising new treatments to market.

The forum, which attracted cancer survivors, advocates, business leaders, researchers and the general public, was sponsored by the national advocacy group, Friends of Cancer Research, UofL’s James Graham Brown Cancer Center and the University of Louisville.

The panel included U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell; Dr. Andrew von Eschenbach, Commissioner, U.S. Food and Drug Administration; Dr. Anna Barker, Deputy Director, National Cancer Institute; Dr. Donald Miller, Director, UofL’s James Graham Brown Cancer Center; Dr. Jason Chesney, Associate Director, Translational Research, UofL’s James Graham Brown Cancer Center; Dr. Robert Mass, Principal Medical Director, Genentech; Susan Moremen, Louisville cancer advocate and cancer survivor.

The session was moderated by nationally-known health policy journalist Susan Dentzer, Editor-in-Chief, Health Affairs: The Policy Journal of the Health Sphere. 

Release Date: 7/2/2008