Under the direction of the CDMRP, the Kidney Cancer Research Program (KCRP) promotes rigorous, innovative, highimpact research in kidney cancer for the benefit of Service Members, Veterans, and the American public. Donald Bottaro, Ph.D., from the National Cancer Institute’s Center for Cancer Research, was a founding member of the KCRP Programmatic Review Panel and helped lead its deliberations through those crucial first years when many of its most innovative goals were envisioned.