Upal Basu Roy, Executive Director of Research at LUNGevity Foundation, shared on LinkedIn:
“Great way to start WCLC26 with the STARS Researh Advocacy Training Program. Patient engagement in research is not a nice-to-have. It’s an evidence-based approach to de-risking clinical research.
- What a treat to spend time with advocacy giants (Janet Freeman-Daily, Jill Feldman, Elda Railey, Anne-Marie Baird, Lillian Leigh GAICD, and Andrew Ciupek).
- And learning from the next generationof research advocates – 2026 STARS Scholars (Rasika Bombatkar, Urvashi Prasad, Teri DeLeo Fisher, Jen Philips, Colleen Ziegler, and KM Tahsin Hassan Rahit). Thank you, International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer and Sara Lindsey Patton for supporting research advocacy.
- The icing on the cake – seeing Caleb Egwuenu winning one of the Africa grants for his projects titled ‘Empowering Lung Cancer Advicates Project‘.
- Laura Petrillo’s excellent plenary presentation on survivorship. I am looking forward to another exciting day of research and discussions today.”
You can also read ‘WCLC 2026 Opens in Seoul: Targeted Therapy Moves Earlier as SCLC Enters a New Therapeutic Era‘
