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Karen Knudsen: From Scientist to One of the Most Powerful Leaders in Oncology

In this interview, we explore:
✓ Her early scientific foundation - from yeast genetics to DNA damage and cell-cycle research
✓ Team-building across urology, oncology, radiation oncology & pathology
✓ Leading cancer services at Jefferson Health and scaling a 3-hospital system into 16
✓ Bringing clinical trials into communities and advancing access to quality care
✓ Transforming the American Cancer Society: new mission, new vision, new structure
✓ Redefining ACS around research, advocacy, and patient support
✓ How policy, navigation, transportation & lodging change patient outcomes
✓ Her move to the Parker Institute and its high-risk, high-gain immunotherapy model
✓ How PICI identifies breakthrough ideas and turns them into companies and clinical trials
✓ The mentors who shaped her

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