Monica Bertagnolli: There has never been more potential for scientific progress!

Quoting Monica Bertagnolli on X/Twitter:

“The more I learn during my first few days as the National Institutes of Health Director, the more excited I am to lead the extraordinary team at NIH. There has never been more potential for scientific progress!”

Source: Monica Bertagnolli/Twitter

Monica Bertagnolli is the Director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), USA. She previously served as the Richard E. Wilson Professor of Surgery in the field of surgical oncology at Harvard Medical School, a surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and a member of the Gastrointestinal Cancer Treatment and Sarcoma Centers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Dr. Bertagnolli is the Founding Chair of the minimal Common Oncology Data Elements (mCODE) executive committee and has held multiple positions nationally, including being Past President and Chair of the Board of Directors of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, Chair of the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology. In 2021, she was elected to the National Academy of Medicine, having previously served on the National Academies National Cancer Policy Forum.