Sherry Lansing

February 23, 2007 A regent of the University of California who chairs its health-services committee and a member of the boards of some enormously important charities, Lansing for years juggled her compassionate concerns with her professional ones, certainly in the quarter-century since 1980, when she became the first woman named president of 20th Century Fox and was thereby inducted into Hollywood history. Now, through her foundation, she is focusing on the areas that concern her most: education, health care and cancer research. Throughout my life, I have been a passionate advocate of cancer research.

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