Women researchers recognized for innovation and potential high-impact work.

Congratulations to our American Cancer Society ResearcHERS Scholars, a distinguished honor recognizing trailblazing women researchers. These women are being recognized by ACS senior leadership for their innovation and potential for high-impact research and affiliation with communities and institutions that proudly support the ResearcHERS program through their giving.

The ResearcHERS Scholars are: 

• Dr. Anne Marie McCarthy, of the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine. Her research is leveraging a large diverse cohort and biobank to combine volumetric breast density and polygenic risk scores to better predict breast cancer risk and help individualize breast cancer screening decisions.
• Dr. Liqin Zhu, of St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. Her research is investigating how the neonatal liver microenvironment contributes to pediatric hepatoblastoma.
• Dr. Nathalie Huguet, of Oregon Health & Science University. Her research focuses on assessing changes in outcomes following Medicaid expansion using longitudinal cohort -CHC EHR data on cancer prevention, screening, and HPV vaccination among Latino patients residing in intervention states versus control states to inform policy.
• Dr. Lillian Eichner, of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Her research is testing a combination of two available and clinically tolerable drugs as a therapeutic approach to treat LKB1 mutant NSCLC. 

As ACS ResearcHERS Scholars, these four women scientists represent the some of the brightest minds in cancer research. While there is no funding attached to those who are recognized as ResearcHERS Scholars, being recognized in this way is designed as a nod to these individuals’ exceptional work. EDS scientific directors will nominate researchers every grant cycle in April and October and senior leadership will choose ResearcHERS Scholars.

The ACS ResearcHERS movement shines a light on the incredible discoveries made by women and empowers women leaders to support the American Cancer Society’s research program, which funds some of the brightest female minds in cancer research.