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  Dr. Garraway is a surgeon-scientist and Professor and Director of Research in Urology at UCLA Health. Her laboratory studies how prostate cancer develops and spreads, and she has a particular interest in understanding racial and ethnic disparities in prostate cancer. She has also led work addressing PSA screening recommendations for Black men.  

  Dr. Pui is a pediatric oncologist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Born and educated in Taiwan, he has devoted decades to improving treatment for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). His research focuses not only on helping more children survive, but also on reducing the long-term effects of treatment. St. Jude notes that survival for childhood ALL has risen from about 50% in the 1970s to more than 90% today.  

 Dr. Odunsi is a Nigerian-born physician-scientist and a leading researcher in ovarian cancer immunology. He is currently Director of the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center and is a principal investigator in a major ovarian cancer research program with Roswell Park. His work has investigated ways of helping the immune system recognize and fight ovarian cancer cells. 

 Dr. Sood is an Indian-American physician-scientist at MD Anderson Cancer Center and Director of its Blanton-Davis Ovarian Cancer Research Program. His research examines how ovarian cancer grows and spreads and works toward new targeted treatments and better ways of diagnosing and treating the disease.