Elana Simon is a PhD student at Stanford University who studies biomedical informatics and has researched fibrolamellar liver cancer. She was honored to introduce President Obama at the White House Precision Medicine announcement. (Video, White House Blog, NPR, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, Associated Press, Science, Forbes, Houston Chronicle, San Diego) She was also on stage at the White House when the 21st Century Cures Act was signed into law.
Elana was an invited speaker at the Vatican International Cancer Conference in Rome, where she received a Pontifical Hero award from Pope Francis and introduced Vice President Biden before his speech about the cancer "moonshot" program. (CBS)
A patient advocate and director at the Fibrolamellar Registry, Elana was the first author of a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and a co-first author of an article in Science magazine (Editors' choice, Clinical Research Forum Achievement Award). She was named the inaugural winner of the Young Champion in Cancer Research award, a Davidson Institute Fellow Laureate, and a US News Next Generation of STEM honoree. Elana participated in the 2014 White House Science Fair, and the 2016 White House Science Fair, both hosted by President Obama. (Video, Wall Street Journal, NY Daily News ) At Google Accelerated Science and Reverie Labs, she used machine intelligence to advance methods of therapeutic drug discovery.
Elana has been a guest on television shows and the subject of articles, including:
The Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal Live
NBC Nightly News
The Today Show
The Dr. Oz Show
Bloomberg
Associated Press (Washington Post, Washington Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times, Miami Herald, Boston.com, Denver Post, Newsday, Philly.com, The Huffington Post)
The New Yorker
US News & World Report
Harvard Crimson
New York Magazine
The Times of Israel
Al Jazeera
A Mighty Girl
Oncology Times
Good Day New York
Sunrise Australia
Science Codex
Tech Times
BioScience Technology
Business Insider (also here)
Medical Xpress
Talk Radio News
Cogito/ Johns Hopkins
Jewish Insider
Hadassah Magazine
Canada AM (Firefox, Safari only)
International Papers: China Post, South China Morning Post, La Stampa (Italy), Daily Mail (UK), The Independent (UK), The Hindu (India), Canada.com, La Jornada en linea (Mexico)
Elana has appeared in the following public service announcements and videos:
Young Champion in Cancer Research
Clinical Research Forum Award
NIH Director's Testimony to US Senate Subcommittee
National Cancer Research Month
Public appeal for patients to donate tumor tissue
She has been an invited speaker at:
The Sohn Foundation Investment Conference (article, article, video)
The American Association for Cancer Research annual convention (video) (press release)
Business Innovation Factory
JFNA Cabinet Retreat
Commencement of Sen. Robert Wagner Middle School
Elana was an invited speaker at the Vatican International Cancer Conference in Rome, where she received a Pontifical Hero award from Pope Francis and introduced Vice President Biden before his speech about the cancer "moonshot" program. (CBS)
A patient advocate and director at the Fibrolamellar Registry, Elana was the first author of a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and a co-first author of an article in Science magazine (Editors' choice, Clinical Research Forum Achievement Award). She was named the inaugural winner of the Young Champion in Cancer Research award, a Davidson Institute Fellow Laureate, and a US News Next Generation of STEM honoree. Elana participated in the 2014 White House Science Fair, and the 2016 White House Science Fair, both hosted by President Obama. (Video, Wall Street Journal, NY Daily News ) At Google Accelerated Science and Reverie Labs, she used machine intelligence to advance methods of therapeutic drug discovery.
Elana has been a guest on television shows and the subject of articles, including:
The Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal Live
NBC Nightly News
The Today Show
The Dr. Oz Show
Bloomberg
Associated Press (Washington Post, Washington Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times, Miami Herald, Boston.com, Denver Post, Newsday, Philly.com, The Huffington Post)
The New Yorker
US News & World Report
Harvard Crimson
New York Magazine
The Times of Israel
Al Jazeera
A Mighty Girl
Oncology Times
Good Day New York
Sunrise Australia
Science Codex
Tech Times
BioScience Technology
Business Insider (also here)
Medical Xpress
Talk Radio News
Cogito/ Johns Hopkins
Jewish Insider
Hadassah Magazine
Canada AM (Firefox, Safari only)
International Papers: China Post, South China Morning Post, La Stampa (Italy), Daily Mail (UK), The Independent (UK), The Hindu (India), Canada.com, La Jornada en linea (Mexico)
Elana has appeared in the following public service announcements and videos:
Young Champion in Cancer Research
Clinical Research Forum Award
NIH Director's Testimony to US Senate Subcommittee
National Cancer Research Month
Public appeal for patients to donate tumor tissue
She has been an invited speaker at:
The Sohn Foundation Investment Conference (article, article, video)
The American Association for Cancer Research annual convention (video) (press release)
Business Innovation Factory
JFNA Cabinet Retreat
Commencement of Sen. Robert Wagner Middle School
