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"If you hear a song like 'Keep Your Head Up,' it's not just like, 'Be happy!'" he says!

The other thing Grammer did during pandemic downtime was spend a lot of time with his two daughters, 4-year-old Louisiana and 1-year-old Izzy.

"It's just been an intense, awesome amount of time for someone like me who does travel quite a bit, to have this whole year.

And to just be, every single night, having the routine with these little girls, it's really, really special.".

In partnership with Quaker Chewy and the American Camp Association, Grammer is crowdsourcing lyrics for a summer camp anthem that he and his preschooler are going to write together.

"It's been really hard for kids throughout the pandemic to not be able to play with other kids," Grammer says.

Grammer will pick lyrics from those submitted, and the Chewy donations will be used to send up to 500 children to summer camp next year.

"She sings a lot, and I think it's going to be really fun," he says.

"It's one of the first songs I'm really going to do with her.

After being in a "songwriting hibernation zone" during the pandemic, Grammer is excited to be back out.

"Like, 'Oh, I get it from all the important, right places!' And then it's taken all away in one moment, and you're like, 'Oh, nope, I was getting a lot from that.'.

"If you hear a song like 'Keep Your Head Up,' it's not just like, 'Be happy!'" he says.

He wrote it out for the first time, and everyone else was like, 'Gravity.

The other thing Grammer did during pandemic downtime was spend a lot of time with his two daughters, 4-year-old Louisiana and 1-year-old Izzy.

"It's just been an intense, awesome amount of time for someone like me who does travel quite a bit, to have this whole year.

And to just be, every single night, having the routine with these little girls, it's really, really special.".

In partnership with Quaker Chewy and the American Camp Association, Grammer is crowdsourcing lyrics for a summer camp anthem that he and his preschooler are going to write together.

"It's been really hard for kids throughout the pandemic to not be able to play with other kids," Grammer says.

Grammer will pick lyrics from those submitted, and the Chewy donations will be used to send up to 500 children to summer camp next year.

"She sings a lot, and I think it's going to be really fun," he says.

"It's one of the first songs I'm really going to do with her.

After being in a "songwriting hibernation zone" during the pandemic, Grammer is excited to be back out.

But rather than give up hope, Ryan sought support from online research, fellow cancer patients and survivors, and her medical team.

She's also donating her blood and cells to the NIH to help them research other potential cancer treatments.

Among the drugs Lee has helped develop during her career, including cancer therapies, she says around a dozen are currently in development, while nine have received FDA approval — an incredible accomplishment as many scientists spend their careers without seeing their drug make it to market.

Lee's team is particularly interested in therapies for brain metastases — something that Lee says is a largely unmet need in cancer research, and something her team is working on from a variety of angles.

But while evaluating potential cancer therapies is a professional passion of Lee's, it's also a mission that's deeply personal

"I'm also a breast cancer survivor," she says

However, seeing how melanoma therapies that she helped develop have affected other real-life cancer patients, she says, has been a highlight of her career

"My mother, who worked as a translator for the government at the time, had been diagnosed with breast cancer, and after her chemotherapy treatments she would get really sick," Kuk, who uses they/them pronouns, recalls

Kuk enrolled in a small, liberal arts college for their Bachelor's degree, and then four years later started a PhD program in cancer research

Although Kuk's mother was in remission from her cancer at the time, Kuk's goal was the same as it had been as a 10-year-old watching her suffer through chemotherapy: to design a better cancer treatment, and change the landscape of cancer research forever

"My mom's cancer relapsed in 2008, and she ended up passing away about five years after that," Kuk says

In addition to making a difference in the lives of LGBTQ+ patients, Kuk wants to make a difference in the lives of patients with cancer as well, like their mother had

"We've diagnosed patients in the Emergency Department with cancer before," Kuk says

"I'm just one person, and I can't force everyone to respect you, if you're marginalized," Kuk says

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