Carol Lin is Founder and CEO of the Cancer Social Network. She is working with the Stanford Research Institute to develop a for-profit online news network and tool site for cancer patients and their families that will launch in the summer of 2008. Prior to becoming a social entrepreneur, Lin spent the past 12 years as an anchor and correspondent for ABC News and CNN. During her eight-year tenure at CNN, Lin anchored several news programs, including "CNN Early Edition," "CNN Live at Daybreak" and "CNN Weekend Primetime." She traveled the globe to report on numerous breaking news stories for CNN, including the rebuilding of Kosovo, the fall of the Taliban and the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. She was the first news anchor to break the news of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City. She has won numerous journalism awards, including DuPont and Peabody awards for CNN's coverage of the war in Afghanistan and Hurricane Katrina. Her investigative reporting has won five Emmy nominations, and she has won the Los Angeles Press Club Award for investigative journalism.

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Revolutionizing Health Care and Research in the Developing World

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