Dr. Sabine Linn: Flipping the Switch on Cancer

On Episode 9 of The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare, Meg is joined by Dr. Sabine Linn, professor of translational oncology focusing on breast cancer at Utrecht University and a practicing medical oncologist at the Netherlands Cancer Institute.The two discuss Dr. Linn's work in biomarker research, the immunological aspects of breast cancer, advancements in cancer diagnostics and how they can help personalize cancer treatment, the patience and perseverance necessary to complete cancer research studies, Dr. Linn's love of sports as meditation, her vision for achieving equality in her field and beyond, and much more. About Dr. Sabine LinnDr. Sabine Linn is a professor of translational oncology focusing on breast cancer at Utrecht University and a practicing medical oncologist at the Netherlands Cancer Institute. She received her Ph.D. on multidrug resistance in solid tumors from the Free University of Amsterdam. Dr. Linn was awarded a Dutch Cancer Society Research Fellowship in 2000 and developed two conditional knock-out mouse models, for both non-small cell lung cancer and small cell lung cancer, in close collaboration with Dr. Ralph Meuwissen in the laboratory of Dr. A.J. Berns at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam.She has also been a group leader at the Division of Molecular Pathology at the Netherlands Cancer Institute since 2005, where she and her research group focus on the molecular dissection of breast cancer by differential drug sensitivity.Further Reading:Mouse model for lung tumorigenesisSummary of Dr. Linn’s ResearchKate Raworth and Doughnut EconomicsWe Should All Be FeministsNo More Boys and GirlsEdith Eger: The Choice and The GiftEpisode Credits: The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare is a production of The Krinsky Company. Hosted by Meg Escobosa. Produced, edited, engineered, and mixed by Calvin Marty. Theme music composed and performed by Calvin Marty. Intro and outro voiced by John Parsons. ©2022 The Krinsky Company