Co-Founder and Executive Director
Chordoma Foundation
Josh Sommer is co-founder and executive director of the Chordoma Foundation, an organization focused on improving the lives of people affected by the rare cancer chordoma, and leading the search for a cure. With a sense of urgency prompted by his own chordoma diagnosis, Josh has spent fifteen years in this role building a global movement of patients, doctors and researchers to drive progress towards better treatments, better care and a better patient experience. Out of necessity, the Chordoma Foundation works relentlessly not only to advance research but to increase the speed and efficiency with which it moves. This has resulted in seven treatments reaching clinical trials. Most recently, the Foundation launched its own lab to bring economies of scale to the research of many collaborating investigators and companies.