September 3, 2026 – 11:00 am EDT

Dr. Jennifer Grandis, UCSF

Women in Cancer Cachexia – WCX Stories and Science Seminar

Please join WCX in welcoming Dr. Jennifer Grandis to Stories and Science. Hear about her remarkable journey in translational cancer research and personal insights on gender and career growth in medicine.

Dr. Jennifer R. Grandis is a physician scientist who is interested in the impact of gender on career development in medicine and science. Her cancer research is focused on elucidating and targeting key signaling pathways and genomic alterations in head and neck cancer with the goals of enabling precision medicine studies. She has leveraged her access to head and neck cancer patients and their biospecimens to optimize translational research studies that include developing novel therapies in the laboratory for clinical application as well as generating and interrogating relevant preclinical models to determine the underlying mechanism of clinical findings. In her institutional roles at the University of Pittsburgh and since 2015, at UCSF, she has facilitated collaborations between clinicians and investigators with an emphasis of developing a robust research infrastructure to support clinical and translational cancer studies. She has published over 400 papers in the peer-reviewed literature and been continuously funded by the NIH since joining the faculty in 1993. Dr. Grandis is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation the Association of American Physicians and the National Academy of Medicine. She is an American Cancer Society Research Professor.

This seminar series is designed to explore the intersection of scientific work and personal narrative, particularly emphasizing the challenges and triumphs women experience throughout their professional journeys in science.

Please register to join us on Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_feUfdLhDRvOC5ydWgn_8AA