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Speaker at podium: So I'm going to turn it over to Dr. Steve Clinton.

Dr. Steve Clinton: The benefit of this meeting today is that we brought together investigators that have an interest in one aspect or another of cancer research whether it's prevention therapy or survivorship to revitalize this topic on campus which I think at OSU we have tremendous potential to making impactful discovery and research that is translated into human care.

Martha Belury: Our food supply is changing rapidly, it has to change because we have to feed a growing world and so we have to know what is in our food that is going to affect our risk for cancer and our ability to withstand cancer treatment and hopefully survive from the disease.

Devin Peterson: What I learned today is the amount of just energy towards understanding dietary patterns on health and wellness that span multiple disciplines and so you know we need to really think about this not from a discipline point of view but more as a systems approach and so how do you bring all these different people that focus from ag production all the way through to cancer research and pull you would say the whole Continuum together in a way that really enables us to think about more effective outcomes.  

Yael Vodovotz: It was great to see some of the updates and some of the studies that have been going on. The role of extension is in community engagement is really a key part the translation part. Collaboration is very much at the heart of this event.

Pat Bebo: Extension is the community connector, we have faculty both at the state level, the field level, and at the county level so we can be complimentary. Whatever information knowledge is gained through that research extension can disseminate it out to the community in a learning style that hopefully will allow people to adopt healthier lifestyles. 

Gary Pierzynski: Ohio State is one of the most comprehensive of land grant universities in in the country. We take the entire spectrum of basic to applied research and use it to to solve real world problems. Getting people together from just Ohio State to talk about what real world problems need to be solved and how we can approach those is a valuable exercise. NSF calls it convergence science, I say we're in land grant university and that's what we do.

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