Emily’s Story: “It Was One of the Last Things I’d Have Ever Expected”
Harvard-trained immunologist and mother of two Emily Venanzi received a shocking diagnosis during Thanksgiving week of 2017—she had metastatic lung cancer. Thanks to the previous decade of research in the field, Venanzi was able to receive a targeted drug therapy that has kept her cancer in-check. Venanzi is now working to advance the next decade of lung cancer research, donating resources, time, and effort to build a ‘dream team’ of lung cancer researchers urgently focused on bringing novel immunotherapies and other treatments to patients. It’s just a cough, Emily Venanzi thought. And maybe some heartburn. But the day before Thanksgiving......
