Advancing Personalized Cancer Medicine
Dr. Nikhil Wagle, an early-career physician-scientist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, is working to translate the revolution in cancer...
Dr. Nikhil Wagle, an early-career physician-scientist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, is working to translate the revolution in cancer...
From integrating clinical cancer care with biomedical research to advocating for early-career cancer researchers, AACR President Dr. Carlos L....
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...
A Landon Foundation-AACR INNOVATOR grantee is researching new ways to circumvent the development of stomach cancer. In 2015, an...
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...
Dr. Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, a physician-scientist at the University of Chicago, is working to reveal the potential of genomics...
Isabelle Tabah-Fisch, MD, a medical oncologist who contributed greatly to drug development, died August 28, 2020, at age 64....
Jimmie C. Holland, MD, FAACR,a pioneer in the field of psycho-oncology, died December 24, 2017, at the age of...
Roger Y. Tsien, PhD, Nobel laureate and Fellow of the AACR Academy, died August 24, 2016, at the age...
The cancer research community mourns the loss of Lee W. Wattenberg, MD, emeritus professor of laboratory medicine and pathology...
Charis Eng, MD, PhD, founder and former director of the Genomic Medicine Institute at Cleveland Clinic and a professor...
Jeffrey S. Weber, MD, PhD, deputy director of the Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone and co-leader of its...
Michael Brattain, PhD, professor at the Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and associate director for basic research in...
Alan C. Sartorelli, PhD, Alfred Gilman Professor of Pharmacology at Yale University School of Medicine, a past president of...
Gerald Litwack, PhD, a retired professor of biochemistry, a prolific author, and a longtime member of AACR, died September...
Walter Wolf, PhD, an AACR member since 1990, died December 25, 2014, at the age of 83. Wolf was...
V. Craig Jordan, PhD, DSc, FAACR, a pharmacologist and a pioneer of hormone therapy for the treatment of breast...
Lynette Ann Denny, MD, PhD, an AACR member, former head of department of obstetrics and gynecology at the University...
Gina Lee, PhD, an assistant professor of microbiology and molecular genetics at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), a...
Nathan A. Berger, MD, founding director of what is now the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center at Case Western Reserve...
Ivy B. Elkins of Evanston, Illinois, an advocate for lung cancer research and for patients with the disease and...
Connie J. Eaves, PhD, OC, a Canadian biologist whose work on hematopoiesis and stem cells provided insights into the...
Judith Campisi, PhD, an expert on the link between aging and cancer through cellular senescence at the Buck Institute...
Maxine Frank Singer, PhD, FAACR, former president of the Carnegie Institution of Science and former chief of the Laboratory...
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,...
Albert H. Owens Jr., MD, inaugural director of the Johns Hopkins Oncology Center in Baltimore, died January 13, 2017,...
José Baselga, MD, PhD, a Past President of the AACR and Fellow of the AACR Academy who was internationally...