Since 1993, the AACR has awarded more than $540 million in grants to fund meritorious research projects across the spectrum of cancer science, including basic, translational, and clinical research. See how the AACR grants program has contributed to the AACR's mission.
We are extremely proud of our past and present grantees who presented and published their findings this past year. Their accomplishments have been made possible through the support of the AACR and its funding partners.
W. Kimryn Rathmell, MD, PhD, formerly of Vanderbilt University Medical Center and now director of the National Cancer Institute, shares the impact on her career and her research of two AACR-supported research grants that she received during her academic career.
As we continue our celebration of 30 years of impact of the AACR Research Grants Program, we share how recipient of a 2022 Victoria’s Secret Global Fund for Women’s Cancers Career Development Award, in partnership with Pelotonia and the AACR, Chemtai Mungo, MD, MPH is seeking to make a difference in the lives of women from low and middle-income countries.
Emma Wrenn, PhD, recipient of the 2022 AACR-QuadW Foundation Sarcoma Research Fellowship, in memory of Willie Tichenor and her colleagues recently uncovered a mechanism by which rare sub-populations of tumor cells expressing low levels of EWS::FLI1 remodel the tumor microenvironment in Ewing Sarcoma.
As we continue our celebration of 30 years of impact of the AACR Research Grants Program, we feature recipient of the 2022 Award for Outstanding Achievement in Basic Cancer Research, Dr. Christina Curtis. Dr. Curtis shares the impact of her AACR Triple-Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) Foundation / Carol’s Crusade for a Cure Foundation Career Development Award on her research.
A career development award from the AACR enabled Eddy Yang, MD, PhD, to investigate combinations of targeted treatments in triple negative breast cancer. Now the chair of radiation medicine at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Dr. Yang shares how the grant came at a pivotal time in his career.
AACR grant recipient June M. Chan, ScD, has studied how diet and exercise, among other factors, contribute to progression in prostate cancer.
Sara G.M. Piccirillo, PhD, was inspired to study glioblastoma whilst an undergraduate student at the National Carlo Besta Neurological Institute in her hometown of Milan, Italy. Now an assistant professor at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Dr. Piccirillo, was awarded the AACR-Novocure Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields) Research Grant in 2021 to investigate the impact of TTFields on residual glioblastoma disease.
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.