Laura van 't Veer among 15 trailblazers in oncology honored

 

IRVINE, Calif.,Agendia, Inc., a world chief in precision oncology for breast cancer, nowadays introduced that co-founder and Chief Research Officer Laura van 't Veer, PhD, will be inducted as this year's Cancer Diagnostics honoree to the 2020 type of OncLive's® Giants of Cancer Care® in a digital awards ceremony on Thursday, November 5, 2020, at 7:30PM EST.

 

Individuals named Giants of Cancer Care have reached landmark successes inside the world discipline of oncology and their work has substantially impacted affected person care and research. Out of 818 nominations, solely 15 have been chosen to this year's class.

"It is a awesome privilege to be counted amongst so many paramount participants of the oncology community," stated Dr. van 't Veer. "Although we can not have a good time in character this year, I seem to be ahead to connecting without a doubt to renowned our collective accomplishments and talk about how we will proceed our work to enhance affected person effects and construct the library of expertise that will assist us battle cancer."

OncLive is the nation's main multimedia useful resource focusing on presenting oncology specialists with relevant, insightful facts on affected person care. The organization's Giants of Cancer Care software has celebrated extra than ninety eight oncology legends in view that 2013 for their ground-breaking achievements in oncology lookup and scientific practice.

"Dr. van 't Veer, alongside with the different individuals of the 2020 classification embody what it capacity to be a Giant of Cancer Care," stated Mike Hennessy Jr., president and CEO of MJH Life Sciences™, the mother or father enterprise of OncLive®. "Her substantial history and great dedication to making sure every affected person receives the fine treatment, used to be honestly the riding pressure at the back of the improvement of MammaPrint. We are proud to understand amazing, dynamic and well-versed oncology leaders like Dr. van 't Veer who are making outstanding contributions to the field."