May 6, 2021, via Zoom. Established in 2016 with strong bipartisan support, the Cancer Moonshot is marshalling resources across the federal government to achieve three goals: accelerate scientific discovery in cancer, foster greater collaboration, and improve the sharing of data. Five years later, is science on the road to better cancer detection, prevention, and cure? In this program, a panel of expert physicians and researchers will share their experiences and insights into the current state and future of cancer research. The moderator: Margot Sanger-Katz is a domestic correspondent at The New York Times, where she covers health care for The Upshot, the Times site about politics, economics, and everyday life. She is also a regular panelist on Kaiser Health News’s What The Health? podcast. She was previously a reporter at National Journal and the Concord Monitor, and an editor at Legal Affairs Magazine and the Yale Alumni Magazine. In 2014, she completed a Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business Journalism at Columbia University. The panel: Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee is the author of The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction, and The Laws of Medicine. Dr. Mukherjee’s The Gene: An Intimate History is his latest work—the story of the quest to decipher the master-code of instructions that makes and defines humans, that governs our form, function, and fate, and determines the future of our children. Mukherjee is an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University and a cancer physician and researcher. A Rhodes scholar, he graduated from Stanford University, University of Oxford, and Harvard Medical School. He has published articles in Nature, The New England Journal of Medicine, The New York Times, and Cell. Roy Jensen, MD, has been Director of The University of Kansas Cancer Center since 2004. With his guidance, the center achieved National Cancer Institute designation in July 2012 and is currently one of 71 NCI-designated centers across the country. Dr. Jensen graduated from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in 1984 and remained there to complete a residency in anatomic pathology and a surgical

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