Nancy F. Goodman, JD
Nancy Goodman is founder and executive director of Kids v Cancer. Kids v Cancer promotes pediatric cancer research by...
Nancy Goodman is founder and executive director of Kids v Cancer. Kids v Cancer promotes pediatric cancer research by...
Jennifer Ehlers is the senior administrative coordinator for the AACR Project GENIE® Coordinating Center. Ehlers joined the AACR to...
A giant of 20th century research pathology, Leo Loeb refined the technique of cell transplantation and was one of...
Lewis C. Cantley, PhD, leads a national effort targeting triple-negative breast cancer and ovarian cancer with a novel drug...
From integrating clinical cancer care with biomedical research to advocating for early-career cancer researchers, AACR President Dr. Carlos L....
Dr. John M. Maris of The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, leads national efforts to translate basic discoveries into treatments...
Dr. Nikhil Wagle, an early-career physician-scientist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, is working to translate the revolution in cancer...
Cancer researcher Renata Pasqualini, PhD, takes aim at cancer with novel approaches to developing targeted diagnostic, imaging, and therapeutic...
Dr. Josette Northcott is exploring the role that blood vessels play in the growth of tumors and the delivery...
James P. Allison, PhD, Untangling the complexities of the immune system to pioneer cancer immunotherapy. Even as a child...
Diagnosed with childhood Hodgkin lymphoma, Diana M. Merino, PhD, is researching ways to harness genetic information in order to...
Dr. Suzanne L. Topalian of the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins is working to find new ways...
“Over the next 25 or 30 years we are going to make major progress toward curing cancers in synergistic...
Roger Y. Tsien, PhD, Nobel laureate and Fellow of the AACR Academy, died August 24, 2016, at the age...
J. Gordon McVie, MD, DSc, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, an innovative leader of several international cancer organizations,...
Nathan Kaufman, MD, a longtime member of the AACR and professor emeritus of pathology and molecular medicine at Queen’s...
Emil J Freireich, MD, DSc, FAACR, who developed a landmark treatment for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia, died February 1,...
Robert L. Comis, MD, cochair of the ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group and professor of medicine at Drexel University in...
Edwin A. Mirand, PhD, DSc, an AACR member since 1954, died March 1, 2017, at the age of 90....
Mary (Dicey) Jackson Scroggins, MA, who survived ovarian cancer and went on to become a powerful patient advocate with...
Albert H. Owens Jr., MD, inaugural director of the Johns Hopkins Oncology Center in Baltimore, died January 13, 2017,...
Scientific Areas of Expertise: Biocatalysis; Biotechnology; Protein Engineering For her Nobel Prize-winning contributions to pioneering directed evolution to generate...
“I’ve always been attracted to colors. Color helps make the work more interesting and endurable. It helps when things...
Through epidemiologic and interdisciplinary studies of high-risk populations, Dr. Fraumeni has contributed to a better understanding of cancer causation...
A national leader in clinical cancer genetics, Dr. Olopade seeks to identify those at risk for breast and ovarian...
A leader in the field of molecular genetics, Dr. Capecchi is best known for his creation of knockout mouse...
A leading light in basic cancer research, Dr. Prives has transformed the field by immersing herself in characterizing the...
A pioneer in cancer immunotherapy research, Dr. Rosenberg led in establishing gene therapy, in developing the first effective cancer...
Best known for her work in immunology of skin cancer, Dr. Kripke showed that chronic exposure to UV radiation...
A renowned molecular biologist, teacher, and author, Dr. Watson is best known as the co-discoverer of the double-helix structure...