Lynn Borton 

Lynn L. Borkon is highly experienced in building sustained relationships among scientific thought leaders and executives across global industry, academic, and government organizations in the US, Canada, UK, Africa, and India for the development of novel biomedical research collaborations, such as medical digital twins.

For over eight years, Lynn led Cancer Data Science and AI collaborations development in the Cancer Data Science Initiatives group at the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research (FNL). Working with key stakeholders, she provided leadership in building an interdisciplinary community of 2,000 scientists to advance leading-edge cancer data science, primarily the National Cancer Institute (NCI)-US Department of Energy (DOE) Collaboration.

In 2024, she oversaw the launch of the NCI computational.cancer.gov portal to promote the adoption of innovative computational models, software, and datasets, and recruited a user group across five continents.

Lynn also launched workforce development initiatives, such as the NCI Data Science Learning Xchange, and led a cross-organization group of NCI data science training directors to foster learning collaborations. 

She has served on numerous multi-organization steering committees for international events, including the New York Scientific Data Summit 2024: Addressing Data Challenges in Digital Twins, the first Virtual Human Global Summit (2023), Frontiers in Predictive Oncology and Computing meetings (2017-2018), Computational Approaches for Cancer Workshop at the international Supercomputing Conference (2019-present), Accelerating Precision Radiation Oncology through Advanced Computing and AI (2021), the AI in Cancer Research and Clinical Care Symposium (2022), and Digital Twins sessions at Bio-IT World (2023-2024). 

Lynn has broad experience in strategic communication and public policy for high-profile, complex initiatives, working with senior officials in Congress, at federal agencies, the Pentagon, and leading professional associations. She is a contributing author of publications on cancer digital twins and predictive radiation oncology. 

Lynn did graduate work at the Institute of World Politics in Washington, DC and received an A.B. degree from Smith College.