Karen T. Liby, PhD, 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.
Born in Angola, Indiana, in 1972, Liby received a bachelor’s degree in biology from Hillsdale College in 1994, a master’s degree in human anatomy from Palmer College in 1997, and a doctorate in cell and molecular biology from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in 2002. She completed a fellowship in pharmacology and toxicology at Dartmouth Medical School in 2007.
She joined the Dartmouth Medical School (later the Geisel School of Medicine) as a research assistant professor, working with the late Michael B. Sporn, MD. In 2015, she moved to Michigan State University as an associate professor of pharmacology and toxicology. She moved to Indiana in 2023 to pursue her goal of developing new drugs to prevent or treat cancer, particularly in relation to the role of inflammation and the immune system in promotion of cancer.
An AACR member since 2003, she was appointed to the AACR Cancer Prevention Working Group Steering Committee when it was created in 2021. Liby received the Wilson S. Stone Memorial Award from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in 2007
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