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Scientific Achievement Awards Committees

Scientific Achievement Awards Committees serve in the significant role of selecting recipients of the prizes, awards, and lectureships that are listed for each committee.

2024-2025 AACR Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cancer Research Committee

Chair
Kornelia Polyak, MD, PhD, FAACR 

Members
Rima S. Al-Awar, PhD

Mitchel S. Berger, MDJ. Jack Lee, PhD

Nancy E. Davidson, MD, FAACR

Thanos D. Halazonetis, DDS, PhD

Roy S. Herbst, MD, PhD

Christopher I. Li, MD, PhD

Judy Lieberman, MD, PhD, FAACR

Luis F. Parada, PhD, FAACR

Melissa A. Simon, MD, MPH Sheila A. Stewart, DPhil

Josep Tabernero, MD

Kenneth Kenji Tanabe, MD

2024-2025 AACR Award for Outstanding Achievement in Blood Cancer Research Committee

Chair
Ravindra Majeti, MD, PhD

Members
Stephen M. Ansell, MD, PhD 

Ami S. Bhatt, MD 

Jorge E. Cortes, MD 

Guido Kroemer, MD, PhD 

A. Thomas Look, MD 

Joseph Mikhael, MD 

Valentina Nardi, MD 

A. Keith Stewart, MBChB, MBA 

Jeffrey W. Tyner, PhD 

Julie M. Vose, MD, MBA 

2024-2025 AACR Award for Outstanding Achievement in Chemistry in Cancer Research Committee

Chair
Danette L. Daniels, PhD

Members
Liron Bar-Peled, PhD 

Dale L. Boger, PhD 

Yael David, PhD 

Danica Galonić Fujimori, PhD 

Renata Jaskula-Sztul, PhD 

Laura L. Kiessling, PhD

Sanjay V. Malhotra, PhD 

Michael Rapé, PhD 

André Richters, PhD 

Mary Lynn Trawick, PhD 

2024-2025 AACR Daniel D. Von Hoff Award for Outstanding Contributions to Education and Training in Cancer Research Committee

Chair
Ramesh K. Ramanathan, MD 

Members
Erkut H. Borazanci, MD 

Elena Gabriela Chiorean, MD 

Haiyong Han, PhD 

Nadia Harbeck, MD, PhD 

Wendy B. London, PhD 

Allyson J. Ocean, MD 

Philip A. Philip, MD, PhD 

Ashok K. Saluja, PhD 

Paul A. Scheet, PhD 

Rachna T. Shroff, MD 

Margaret A. Tempero, MD 

Andrea Wang-Gillam, MD, PhD 

2024-2025 AACR Distinguished Lectureship in Breast Cancer Research Committee 

Chair
Luisa Iruela-Arispe, PhD 

Members
Benjamin O. Anderson, MD 

Mariana Chavez MacGregor, MD, MSC 

Camila O. dos Santos, PhD 

Matthew P. Goetz, MD 

Ariella B. Hanker, PhD 

Dezheng Huo, PhD 

E. Shelley Hwang, MD, MPH 

Kate I. Lathrop, MD 

Maryam B. Lustberg, MD 

Erica L. Mayer, MD, MPH 

Pedram Razavi, MD, PhD 

Carlos L. Arteaga, MD, FAACR (ex officio) 

2024-2025 AACR Distinguished Lectureship on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities Committee 

Chair
Claradina Soto, PhD 

Members
M. Paula Aristizabal, MD 

Kevin D. Cassel, DrPH 

Vida Henderson, PhD, MPH, PharmD 

Chanita Hughes-Halbert, PhD 

Jason A. Mendoza, MD, MPH 

Samilia Obeng-Gyasi, MD, MPH 

Diana Redwood, PhD, MPH 

Sonya Reid, MD, MPH 

Susan T. Vadaparampil, PhD, MPH 

2024-2025 AACR James S. Ewing-Thelma B. Dunn Award for Outstanding Achievement in Pathology in Cancer Research Committee

Chair
Kurt A. Schalper, MD, PhD 

Members
Jessica L. Davis, MD 

Jiaoti Huang, MD, PhD 

Paul H. Huang, PhD 

Teresa Hyun, MD, PhD 

Selene C. Koo, MD, PhD 

Tamara Levin Lotan, MD 

Torsten O. Nielsen, MD, PhD 

Eli Pikarsky, MD, PhD 

Sabina Signoretti, MD 

Laura H. Tang, MD, PhD 

Michael A. Teitell, MD, PhD 

Lawrence D. True, MD 

2024-2025 AACR Laboratory Research Awards Committee

Chair
J. Alan Diehl, PhD 

Members
Iannis Aifantis, PhD 

Chiara Ambrogio, PhD 

Bradley E. Bernstein, MD, PhD 

Adrienne A. Boire, MD, PhD 

Manel Esteller, MD, PhD 

Hector L. Franco, PhD 

Kay F. Macleod, PhD 

Jeremy N. Rich, MD, MHS, MBA 

Kala Visvanathan, MD 

Shizhen Emily Wang, PhD 

Johnathan R. Whetstine, PhD 

Jelani C. Zarif, PhD 

2024-2025 AACR Margaret Foti Award for Leadership and Extraordinary Achievements in Cancer Research Committee

Chair
John D. Carpten, PhD, FAACR 

Members
John M. Carethers, MD, FAACR 

Christine A. Iacobuzio-Donahue, MD, PhD 

Virginia G. Kaklamani, MD 

Natasha Kyprianou, MBBS, PhD 

Ming Lei, PhD 

Ruben A. Mesa, MD 

Yu Shyr, PhD, FAACR 

Kimberly Stegmaier, MD 

Cheryl L. Willman, MD 

2024-2025 AACR Outstanding Investigator Award for Breast Cancer Research Committee

Chair
Sofia D. Merajver, MD, PhD 

Members
Julio A. Aguirre-Ghiso, PhD 

James V. Alvarez, PhD 

Samuel Aparicio, BMBch, PhD 

Eric C. Chang, PhD 

Richard S. Finn, MD 

Dawn L. Hershman, MD 

Joanne Kotsopoulos, PhD 

Meena S. Moran, MD 

Eileen E. Parkes, PhD 

Faye A. Rogers, PhD 

Jeffrey M. Rosen, PhD 

Priyanka Sharma, MD

Carlos L. Arteaga, MD, FAACR (ex officio) 

2024-2025 AACR Team Science Award Committee

Chair
Michael B. Yaffe, MD, PhD 

Members
Bojana I. Askovich, PhD 

Yin Cao, ScD, MPH 

Aadel A. Chaudhuri, MD, PhD 

Adrian L. Gill, PhD 

Raju Kucherlapati, PhD 

Ana María López, MD, MPH 

Chrystal M. Paulos, PhD 

Matthew B. Schabath, PhD 

Melody Smith, MD, MS 

Amina Zoubeidi, PhD 

2024-2025 AACR-American Cancer Society Award for Research Excellence in Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Committee

Chair
Lee W. Jones, PhD 

Members
Roshan Bastani, PhD 

Zobeida Cruz-Monserrate, PhD 

Christina M. Dieli-Conwright, PhD, MPH 

Samir M. Hanash, MD, PhD 

Mark A. LaBarge, PhD 

Lingeng Lu, MD, PhD 

Tuya Pal, MD 

Sharon A. Savage, MD 

Rulla M. Tamimi, ScD 

Carmina G. Valle, PhD, MPH 

Trang VoPham, PhD, MPH, MS 

Lin Yang, PhD 

2024-2024 AACR-Cancer Research Institute Lloyd J. Old Award in Cancer Immunology Committee

Chair
Ignacio Melero, MD, PhD 

Members
Ido Amit, PhD 

Lisa H. Butterfield, PhD 

Yvonne Y. Chen, PhD 

Glenn Dranoff, MD 

Elizabeth M. Jaffee, MD, FAACR 

Nikhil S. Joshi, PhD 

Lewis L. Lanier, PhD 

Lili Yang, PhD 

2024-2025 AACR-Joseph H. Burchenal Award for Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Cancer Research Committee

Chair
Frederick R. Appelbaum, MD, FAACR 

Members
Michael Cecchini, MD 

Ignacio Garrido-Laguna, MD, PhD, MBA 

Petros Grivas, MD, PhD 

David S. Hong, MD 

Isaac Y. Kim, MD, PhD, MBA 

Theresa Kolben, MD, PhD 

Zeshaan A. Rasheed, MD, PhD  

April A. N. Rose, MD, PhD, FRCPC 

Alison Schram, MD 

Erica Stringer-Reasor, MD 

Puja Sapra, PhD 

Hank Schmidt, MD, PhD 

2024-2025 AACR-Minorities in Cancer Research Jane Cooke Wright Memorial Lectureship Committee

Chair
José G. Treviño, II., MD 

Members
Maria G. Castro, PhD 

Bernard Kwabi-Addo, PhD

Janielle P. Maynard, PhD

Felicite Noubissi-Kamdem, PhD

  Ramon E. Parsons, MD, PhD 

Steven T. Rosen, MD 

Brian Ruffell, PhD 

Marcia Tan, PhD 

Naoto T. Ueno, MD, PhD 

Eduardo Vilar-Sanchez, MD, PhD 

Charnita M. Zeigler-Johnson, PhD 

2024-2025 AACR-Princess Takamatsu Memorial Lectureship Committee

Chair
Tyler Jacks, PhD, FAACR 

Members Paolo Boffetta, MD, MPH 

Fatima Cardoso, MD 

Nadia Harbeck, MD, PhD 

Masanori Hatakeyama, MD 

Shivaani Kummar, MD 

Hiroyuki Mano, MD, PhD 

Matthew L. Meyerson, MD, PhD, FAACR 

Masanobu Oshima, DVM, PhD 

Hideyuki Saya, MD, PhD 

Deborah Schrag, MD, MPH 

Yoshinori Murakami, MD, PhD (Ex Officio) 

2024-2025 AACR-St. Baldrick’s Foundation award for Outstanding Achievement in Pediatric Cancer Research Committee

Chair
Jason T. Yustein, MD 

Members
James F. Amatruda, MD, PhD 

Jacqueline S. Casillas, MD 

Lisa R. Diller, MD

Maryam Fouladi, MD 

A. Lindsay Frazier, MD 

Julia L. Glade-Bender, MD 

Michael D. Hogarty, MD 

Heinrich Kovar, PhD 

Stefan M. Pfister, MD 

Lillian Sung, MD, PhD 

Gilles Vassal, MD, PhD 

Anita Villani, MD, MSc 

Leo D. Wang, MD, PhD 

Alan S. Wayne, MD 

2024-2025 AACR-Waun Ki Hong Award for Outstanding Achievement in Translational and Clinical Cancer Research Committee

Chair
Raymond N. DuBois, MD, PhD, FAACR 

Members
Gautam Borthakur, MD 

Stephen Lam, MD 

Natasha B Leighl, BSc, MMSc, MD 

Nancy U. Lin, MD 

Jennifer L. McQuade, MD 

Solange Peters, MD, PhD 

Rafael Santana-Davila, MD 

Matthew B. Schabath, PhD 

Vivek Subbiah, MD 

Cristian Tomasetti, PhD 

2024-2025 AACR-Women in Cancer Research Charlotte Friend Lectureship Committee

Chair
Jill P. Mesirov, PhD 

Members
Bettina F. Drake, PhD 

Claudia Fischbach, PhD 

Marina Chiara Garassino, MD 

Ernest T. Hawk, PhD, MPH 

Patricia Nez Henderson, MD, MPH 

Sophia C. Kamran, MD 

Dineo Khabele, MD 

Christopher S. Lathan, MD, MS, MPH 

Elisa M. Rodriguez, PhD 

Priscilla R. Sanderson, PhD, CRC 

2024-2025 Pezcoller Foundation-AACR International Award for Extraordinary Achievement in Cancer Research Committee

Chair
Giulio F. Draetta, MD, PhD 

Members
Dario C. Altieri, MD, PhD 

John M. Carethers, MD, FAACR 

Guido Kroemer, MD, PhD 

Elaine R. Mardis, PhD, FAACR 

Luigi Naldini, MD, PhD 

Katerina A. Politi, PhD 

Nicola Segata, PhD 

Mehmet Toner, PhD 

Samra Turajlic, MD, PhD 

Nicholas C. Turner, MD, PhD 

2023-2024 AACR June L. Biedler Prize for Cancer Journalism Judging Panel

Chair
Clifton Leaf, MS

Vice Chair
Ron Winslow, BA

Members
Jose Javier Bravo-Cordero, PhD
Lecia Bushak, BFA
Maria G. Castro, PhD
Ellen L. Goode, MPH, PhD
Adam Hayden, MA
Wenora Y. Johnson, BS
Amy E. Leader, DrPH, MPH
Donna M. Ludwinski, BS
Marlena Murphy, MA, APC, NCC
Cynthia Ryan, PhD
Mariana Carla Stern, PhD
Kari L. Whitehead, MS, RD