Fumiko Ladd Chino: It’s the annual time to remind myself that failure is part of science

“If you don’t have a few detailed tributes to your wrongness, you just ain’t right.”

Quoting Fumiko Ladd Chino‘s post:

“Preparing abstracts for ASCOQLTY24 and making my slides (overdue) for ASCO24. It’s the annual time to remind myself that failure is part of science.”

Source: Stephanie Graff/X and Fumiko Ladd Chino/X

Stephanie L. Graff is the Director of the Breast Oncology Program at Lifespan Cancer Institute at the Legorreta Cancer Center at Brown University and co-leader of the Breast Cancer Translational Research Disease Group. She is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Warren-Alpert School of Medicine. She also serves as a medical advisor to the Dr. Susan Love Foundation for Breast Cancer Research, is an Associate Editor of Cancer Medicine, and chairs the editorial board of Oncology Times. Dr. Graff has received the Frist Humanitarian Award for her work in the community, Healio® Disruptive Innovator Woman Disruptor of Year in 2022, and the RI American College of Physicians’ Benjamin L. Sapers Memorial Award for her “passion for pedagogy, academic rigor, empathy and humanism.”

Fumiko Ladd Chino is a cancer researcher and Assistant Attending in Radiation Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (USA), who specializes in gynecological and breast cancers. She was also a caregiver for her husband Andrew Mark Ladd, PhD who died from cancer in 2007. She is a recipient of numerous awards, including ASCO Excellence in Equity Award (2022), Duke Radiation Oncology Award for Outstanding Clinical Research (2019), Duke University Hospital “Good Catch” Award (2018), Conquer Cancer Foundation of ASCO Merit Award (2018), Duke University School of Medicine Dean’s Recognition Award (2014) and Memorial Hermann Hospital, Texas Medical Center Volunteer of the Year Award (2009).