A fellowship from the AACR enabled Jeffrey Engelman, MD, PhD, to stay in the lab and make the discoveries that launched a successful career that has spanned academic medicine, a pharmaceutical company, and a biotech startup.
Cancers use many tricks to try to defeat the therapies that are used against them. Andrea Bild, PhD, and her team are dedicated to fighting back with sophisticated methods to spot those tricks and throw cancer on the defensive.
As we continue our celebration of 30 years of impact of the AACR Research Grants Program, we feature the first recipient of an AACR Clinical and Translational Cancer Research Fellowship (supported by Amgen) -- 1993 AACR Research Fellow Michael Jensen, MD.
Led by a fascination with Lymphoma, Chloe Steen, PhD, has dedicated her research and career to developing and employing computational methods for dissecting the tumor microenvironment of lymphoma, and other types of cancer. Here, she shares how receiving 2019 AACR-AstraZeneca Lymphoma Research Fellowship represented a key stepping stone in her career.
Recipient of a 2021 AACR Career Development Award to Further Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Pancreatic Cancer Research, Luisa Escobar-Hoyos, PhD, shares how the AACR grant has been a critical step in her quest for federal funding for her more unconventional approach to treat pancreatic cancer.
Tuomas Tammela, MD, PhD shared how his 2018 AACR NextGen Grant led to the discovery of a new particularly malignant cell state in lung cancer. He lauds the benefits of grants such as the AACR Next Gen grants that provide robust support for research on fundamental biology.
The AACR-Bayer Innovation and Discovery Grants sought to uncover new treatment options for cancers with high unmet medical need and encourage translation of ideas from basic research into novel drugs. Surgical oncologist, Rosa Hwang, MD, received the grant in 2016, helping her pursue a new therapeutic target in pancreatic cancer.
AACR Special Conference “Rethinking DCIS: An Opportunity for Prevention” Plenary Session Speaker Fariba Behbod, Pharm D, PhD, received the AACR-Breast Cancer Research Foundation for Translational Breast Cancer Research award in 2014, when she was an Assistant Professor at the Kansas University Medical Center Research Institute. Now a Full Professor, she speaks on the impact of the AACR grant on her research and career.
The AACR-Genentech BioOncology Career Development Award for Cancer Research on the HER Family Pathway encouraged and supported a physician-scientist to conduct cancer research on the HER Family Pathway and to establish a successful career path in this field. Christine...
Michele Carbone, MD, PhD, investigated an epidemic of mesothelioma in remote villages in Turkey and discovered a new cancer syndrome caused by an inherited anomaly. An AACR grant supported his research.