No stranger to cancer in the professional realm, Dr. Heath Schuback also holds a personal connection as well. Schuback was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma at 19 years old. Her own experience fueled her determination to find cures for childhood cancers, leading her to her current position as a researcher for childhood AML.

Schuback's experience was very unique in that her sister was diagnosed with cancer around the same time and the two battled the disease together. She had the experience as cancer patient and having a loved one be a cancer patient. Schuback is funded by a grant from the St. Baldrick's Foundation, the largest private funder of childhood cancer research grants in the world.

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