Barbara C. Vanderhyden completed her Ph.D. in Reproductive Physiology at the University of Western Ontario in 1988. She then completed her postdoctoral studies at The Jackson Laboratory in Maine, where she learned to climb mountains, both literally and scientifically. In 1991, she joined the Cancer Research Group at the University of Ottawa, which has evolved into the Cancer Therapeutics Program at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, where she is a Senior Scientist. She is also a Professor at the University of Ottawa and has held the inaugural Corinne Boyer Chair in Ovarian Cancer Research since 2000. Her research is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the National Science and Engineering Council, the Cancer Research Society, and the Canadian Cancer Society. She is a recipient of the Dr. J. David Grimes Research Career Achievement Award, the Capital Educator’s Award, and the Governor General’s Caring Canadian Award. She has served on the editorial boards for the Journal of Ovarian Research and BMC Cancer, is Chair of the Study Committee of the TFRI-funded COEUR (national ovarian cancer biomarker project), and served for 25 years on the Board of Directors of Ovarian Cancer Canada.