In a conversation with CancerNetwork®, Vanessa Almendro-Navarro, PhD, MBA, who recently joined City of Hope as chief commercialization officer, discussed her background as a research fellow at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, as well as how her clinical background will impact her new role. In describing her background as a fellow, she explained that Dana-Farber was one of the few institutions that pioneered research in intratumor heterogeneity, as well as breast cancer stem cell tumor evolution.