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Ellen V. Sigal, PhD, is Chairperson and Founder of Friends of Cancer Research (Friends). Friends is an advocacy organization based in Washington, DC that drives collaboration among partners from every healthcare sector to power advances in science, policy, and regulation that speed life-saving treatments to patients. For more than two decades, Friends has been instrumental in the creation and implementation of policies ensuring patients receive the best treatments in the fastest and safest way possible. Dr. Sigal is Chair of the Board of Directors of the Reagan-Udall Foundation, a partnership designed to modernize medical product development, accelerate innovation and enhance product safety in collaboration with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. She serves on the Board of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, where she chairs its Public Private Partnerships Committee.

Richard Pazdur, M.D. is the director of the FDA's Oncology Center of Excellence (OCE), which leverages the combined skills of the FDA's regulatory scientists and reviewers with expertise in drugs, biologics and devices to expedite the development of novel cancer products. In his role as director of the OCE, Pazdur is responsible for leading the effort to develop and execute an integrated regulatory approach to enhance the cross-center coordination of oncology product clinical review.

Dr. Mikhail Varshavski, commonly known as "Doctor Mike" to a massive audience of over 8 million social media subscribers, is a physician, media personality, writer, and philanthropist with a purpose. Leveraging his media presence, he educates on the importance of health literacy and battles misinformation with an entertaining and common sense approach. Between his wildly popular YouTube channel (300 million views) and recurring appearances on network TV programs like GMA, Live W/ Kelly & Ryan, Rachael Ray, and The Doctors he makes medicine relatable, enjoyable, and practical. As a family medicine specialist, Doctor Mike is uniquely equipped to cover a variety of health topics and discuss the complete patient experience as often he is the first and last point of contact for those with an extensive range of conditions.

Anne McTiernan, MD, PhD is a Full Member at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA, and Research Professor at the University of Washington Schools of Medicine and Public Health. Her research focuses on exercise, diet, obesity, and risk for cancer development and prognosis. She was Principal Investigator of the U.S. National Cancer Institute-funded Seattle Transdisciplinary Research on Energetics and Cancer program that investigated mechanisms linking obesity and sedentary lifestyles with cancer. She has received research funding from the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, Susan G. Komen, and other organizations. She is an elected Fellow in the American College of Sports Medicine and the Obesity Society.

Formed in 2009, Imagine Dragons first revealed their limitless passion and genre-bending sensibilities with a series of independently released EPs that quickly earned a grassroots following. After hitmaking producer Alex Da Kid signed them to Interscope Records, the band made their major-label debut with Continued Silence, a 2012 EP featuring the double-platinum breakthrough single “It's Time.” The band recently released their fourth album, ORIGINS. The album includes the #1 single "Natural," which spent nine weeks at No. 1 at alternative radio. IMAGINE DRAGONS founded The Tyler Robinson Foundation in 2013 benefitting and advocating for children who have been diagnosed with cancer and their families. The mission of the foundation is to strengthen families financially and emotionally as they cope with the tragedy of a pediatric cancer diagnosis by offsetting out-of-pocket expenses. Tyler Robinson was a superfan and friend of the Dragons who passed away from a rare form of cancer in 2013.