Moderator
Michael Milken, Chairman, Milken Institute
Speakers
Francis Collins, Director, National Institutes of Health
Linda Fried, Dean and DeLamar Professor of Public Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University; Senior Vice President, Columbia University Medical Center
Robert Hugin, Executive Chairman, Celgene
Freda Lewis-Hall, Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Pfizer Inc.
The fight against cancer is moving forward faster than ever thanks to advances in public health and medical research, including more focused prevention strategies, powerful diagnostic tools, vaccines, stem cell treatments, precision therapies and immunology drugs. But for the millions who will be diagnosed this year, and for their families, faster is not fast enough. We can do better. With this in mind, the White House recently announced the National Cancer Moonshot, a $1 billion initiative to eliminate cancer as we know it. The Moonshot represents a bold new opportunity to accelerate our understanding of, and our ability to prevent and treat, all cancers. To be successful, this initiative will require unprecedented partnerships between the public health and medical research communities, and among government agencies, industry, philanthropy, academia, patients and foundations. We’ll hear from a diverse panel of leading decision-makers in these fields on how they are committed to relegating cancer to the history books.
