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The 2024 generation

Nature Cancer volume 5, pages 1774–1778 (2024)Cite this article

Twelve early-career researchers who embarked on their independent research paths in 2024 reflect on their experience from their journey so far, describe the opportunities they received and the challenges they faced, and share their hopes and plans for the future.

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  1. CSIR-Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology (IGIB), New Delhi, India

    Shruthy Suresh Aggarwal

  2. Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, India

    Shruthy Suresh Aggarwal

  3. College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA

    Cristina Andreani

  4. Institute for Cancer Research, Chinese Institutes for Medical Research, Beijing, China

    Zihou Deng

  5. German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), partner site Munich, a partnership between DKFZ and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Munich, Germany

    Julia Frede

  6. St Anna Children’s Cancer Research Institute (CCRI), Vienna, Austria

    Polina Kameneva

  7. IFOM — The AIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, Milan, Italy

    Marta Kovatcheva

  8. Yale Department of Dermatology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

    Goran Micevic

  9. Yale Cancer Center, New Haven, CT, USA

    Goran Micevic

  10. Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Fay Nicolson

  11. German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

    Jens Puschhof

  12. Faculty of Biosciences, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

    Jens Puschhof

  13. DKFZ Hector Cancer Institute, University Medical Center Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

    Jens Puschhof

  14. Vancouver Prostate Centre, Department of Urologic Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

    Morgan Roberts

  15. School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China

    Gang Wang

  16. Peking–Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China

    Gang Wang

  17. Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA

    Dionysios C. Watson

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Correspondence to Shruthy Suresh Aggarwal, Cristina Andreani, Zihou Deng, Julia Frede, Polina Kameneva, Marta Kovatcheva, Goran Micevic, Fay Nicolson, Jens Puschhof, Morgan Roberts, Gang Wang or Dionysios C. Watson.

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Aggarwal, S.S., Andreani, C., Deng, Z. et al. The 2024 generation. Nat Cancer 5, 1774–1778 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43018-024-00866-2

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