The JKTG Foundation announced two recipients of the JKTG Scholars Program, part of its commitment to supporting early-stage research at a time when funding for emerging scientists is increasingly limited. The Scholars are advancing complementary research into how cells sense and respond to their physical environment—fundamental biology that underlies cancer progression and metastasis.

A word of advice to those of you who think you can grow a successful and sustainable business just by telling someone to believe you or invest in you without laying the groundwork. Unless you are willing to put in the work and embrace a more progressive, strategic, thoughtful, and patient approach, you will never be able to grow a sustainable business.

The Jayne Koskinas Ted Giovanis Foundation for Health and Policy (JKTG Foundation) will host its annual Cancer Research Symposium in Washington, D.C., this fall, marking the event's 10th year bringing together leading researchers and clinicians to advance collaboration in cancer research. The 2026 symposium will focus on the theme Novel Strategies for Targeting Metastasis. Registration opens in June.

Most people don’t die from breast cancer itself — they die when the cancer spreads. Yet metastasis remains one of the least understood and most difficult aspects of the disease to treat.

Making a different requires knowledge, getting experience, disappointment, and then doubling down and going at it again. Many who call themselves advocates don’t do that. I encourage you that if you truly want to make a difference; learn, invest your time as well as your money, and be patient. Do not merely yell loudly for your cause.

I argue that there is different, bureaucratic golden rule at play– the guy with the gold makes up the rules. Those with the power to dole out funds can influence and achieve their intended goals through the scoring criteria they use to evaluative proposals, who they place on the review section panels and who they chose to use. Through these mechanisms, they could (and perhaps do) influence what and who gets selected.

Research dollars matter most when they target questions, not just causes.

Progress comes when we stop driving down the middle and start finding the edge.

Convergent research advances science — convergent thinking can stall it.