Those of us who have encountered difficulties transferring information from the software we use at home to our work computers have a hint of how complicated this would be for research data.  The purpose of caBIG is to come up with standards for software and reports that will let everyone from researchers to doctors to patients communicate.

Virginia has done more than survive despite two bouts with cancer and so many other health challenges.  She has touched lives through face-to-face support groups in California, reached out to IBC patients all over the world at www.ibcsupport.org, and used her computer expertise to fight cancer. 

Those who know Virginia via computer know her as Dr. Juice.  Virginia says she got this nickname when a professor at the university where she was teaching objected to students calling her by her first name.  Somehow Dr. VH (for her initials) morphed into Dr. V8 and from there into Dr. Juice.  But I think the moniker “Dr. Juice” perfectly fits the energy and vitality that Virginia pours into everything she does.  She’s staying alive and so much more.