In Memoriam

Eva Klein, MD, PhD, FAACR, professor emerita of tumor biology at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and a pioneer in cancer immunology and virology, died January 19, 2025, at the age of 99.

Kenneth H. Cowan, MD, PhD, a longtime AACR member who served for 24 years as director of what is now the Nebraska Medicine Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center in Omaha, died December 15, 2024. He was 77 years old.

Karen T. Liby, a longtime AACR member who was the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Professor of Hematology-Oncology at Indiana University’s Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center, died November 15, 2024, at the age of 52.

Andrew V. Schally, PhD, FAACR, who shared the 1977 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology for his discoveries on endocrine signaling in the nervous system, died October 17, 2024, at the age of 97.

Jeffrey S. Weber, MD, PhD, deputy director of the Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone and co-leader of its Clinical Melanoma Program, professor of oncology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, and an Emeritus member of the AACR, died August 18, 2024, at the age of 72.

Charis Eng, MD, PhD, founder and former director of the Genomic Medicine Institute at Cleveland Clinic and a professor of molecular medicine at its Lerner College of Medicine, died August 13, 2024. She was 62 years old.

R. Michael Williams, MD, PhD, an oncologist in Modesto, California, former chief medical officer of Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA), and a member of the AACR since 1979, died July 18, 2024. He was 77 years old.

Maxine Frank Singer, PhD, FAACR, former president of the Carnegie Institution of Science and former chief of the Laboratory of Biochemistry at the National Cancer Institute, died July 9, 2024. She was 93.

Ivy B. Elkins of Evanston, Illinois, an advocate for lung cancer research and for patients with the disease and a member of the AACR, died June 23, 2024.  She was 57.

Gina Lee, PhD, an assistant professor of microbiology and molecular genetics at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), a member of the UCI Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, and an AACR member since 2009, died June 23, 2024. She was 39 years old.

Nathan A. Berger, MD, founding director of what is now the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) in Cleveland, Ohio, and a member of the AACR since 1978, died June 14, 2024. He was 83.

V. Craig Jordan, PhD, DSc, FAACR, a pharmacologist and a pioneer of hormone therapy for the treatment of breast cancer, died June 9, 2024, at the age of 76.

Lynette Ann Denny, MD, PhD, an AACR member, former head of department of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa, and a leading researcher in the prevention of cervical cancer in low-resource settings, died June 9, 2024. She was 66.