Dr Bill Nelson, the Director of the Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, begins a new podcast series focused on cancer treatment and research. In episode one, Dr Nelson speaks with Dr Elizabeth Jaffee, the Kimmel Cancer Center’s Deputy Director and the Associate Director of the Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, from the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Researchers in Chicago. Jaffee has just assumed the Presidency of the AACR. They discuss where the science of cancer research is headed in the future and Jaffee’s agenda for the next year leading the organization.