Keynote by Elizabeth Eisenhauer

Decades of research investment into the etiologies and drivers of human disease across many therapeutic areas has uncovered a wealth of fundamental biology which has, in turn, shaped how we prevent, diagnose, and treat those ailments. Public and academic accolades rightly focus on the laboratory science which has contributed to these advances. Less attention has been focused on the challenging, but critical, clinical research steps needed to translate observations from the lab into human impact.

This lecture will offer examples from cancer clinical trials on the key role clinical data play in advancing disease outcomes and also underscore how patients themselves have contributed to developing research questions.