Dr. Robert Winn is the Associate Vice Chancellor for Community-Based Practice and Director, University of Illinois Cancer Center. He is a physician-scientist and a keen proponent of the “bench to community” model. His basic science research, which has been supported by multiple National Institutes of Health and Veterans Affairs Merit awards, focuses on the mechanisms that drive the proliferation cancer and on the role of cellular senescence in lung cancer. He is a principal investigator on several community-based projects funded by the National Institutes of Health and National Cancer Institute, including the All of Us Precision Medicine Initiative.