Michelle Hildebrandt, Ph.D., left the Midwest 14 years ago for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at MD Anderson that focused on cancer prevention and research training. Today, she is an associate professor here in Lymphoma-Myeloma.

Hildebrandt did not expect her postdoctoral fellowship to bloom into the career it has at MD Anderson. But now she feels at home in Texas with a ranch replete with a menagerie of animals – and in 2021...