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AORTIC is the premier organisation for cancer research and training in Africa. As the chair of the AORTIC research committee, I work with outstanding cancer scientists within and outside Africa to provide scientific leadership and direction for cancer research in Africa.

— Folakemi T. Odedina

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You don’t have to strive to be liked but always strive to be respected for your work.

My ammunition for overcoming this discrimination is hard work and undeniable productivity and output.

The Global Oncology Clinical Trials Congress for blacks is very dear to my heart given the underrepresentation of the black population in clinical trials.

Women in research, especially biomedical research, face many obstacles and discrimination. Earlier in my career, the perception was that a woman had to choose between having a family and a career.

In Nigeria, while I was at the University of Ife, one of the things that I (and so many women) had to deal with was the sexual predators.

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