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Ellen Sigal, PhD, is Chair and founder of Friends of Cancer Research (www.focr.org), a cancer research think tank and advocacy organization based in Washington, DC. During the last twenty years,Sigal has been an advocate for finding new and better treatments for patients through advancing science and research.

She has served on the National Cancer Institute Board of Scientific Advisors and the National Institutes of Health Director’s Council of Public Representatives. She was a presidential appointee to the National Cancer Advisory Board where she chaired the Budget and Planning Committee that oversees the federal cancer budget.

She is currently Vice-chair of the Board of Directors of the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA and Chair of the Public-private Partnerships Committee of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health. She is a board member of the American Association of Cancer Research Foundation and Duke University Cancer Center. She received a BA and masters from Brooklyn College and a PhD from Rutgers.