About Cancer Research Society

I founded Cancer Research Society to close the distance between curious high school students and real cancer research. Too many students who want to contribute to medicine never get the chance — not because they lack the drive, but because no one ever showed them how the door actually opens. Cancer Research Society exists to show them.

We give students genuine exposure to cancer research, clinical medicine, and service. We help them build the skills real research demands — reading the literature, finding a question nobody has answered yet, and analyzing public datasets — and, just as importantly, the practical skills that get them in the room: how to cold email a professor, how to follow up, and how to carry themselves once they are there. Then we help them turn those skills into real roles: internships, wet-lab placements, computational projects, and research positions alongside working scientists.

We do this in collaboration with researchers at MD Anderson and Baylor, across programs that build in order — an academic foundation, elite access to the research presented at ASCO, AACR, and ESMO, a pipeline into actual lab positions, and outreach that educates and funds our community. Everything we build is free, and open to every high school student, regardless of where they go to school or what they have done before.

Our goal is simple: that any student with real curiosity about cancer can find a real place to act on it. The earlier a student gets to do genuine work, the further they go — and the more good science gets done.