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American Association for Cancer Research The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) is the world's oldest and largest professional association related to cancer research. Based in Philadelphia, the AACR focuses on all aspects of cancer research, including basic, clinical, and t ...

gives several annual awards for significant contributions to the field of

cancer research Cancer research is research into cancer to identify causes and develop strategies for prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and cure. Cancer research ranges from epidemiology, molecular bioscience to the performance of clinical trials to evaluate and ...

AACR Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cancer Research

This award recognizes prodigious scientists that have made profound contributions to the field of cancer research. * 2018: Joseph R. Bertino * 2017:

Mina Bissell Mina J. Bissell is an Iranian-American biologist known for her research on breast cancer. In particular, she has studied the effects of a cell's microenvironment, including its extracellular matrix, on tissue function. Early life and education ...

* 2016:

Robert A. Weinberg Robert Allan Weinberg (born November 11, 1942) is a biologist, Daniel K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), director of the Ludwig Center of the MIT, and American Cancer Society Research Profes ...

* 2015:

Mario R. Capecchi Mario Ramberg Capecchi (born 6 October 1937) is an Italian-born molecular geneticist and a co-awardee of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering a method to create mice in which a specific gene is turned off, known as knock ...

* 2014: Douglas Hanahan * 2013: Harold L. Moses * 2012:

Beatrice Mintz Beatrice Mintz (January 24, 1921 – January 3, 2022) was an American embryologist who contributed to the understanding of genetic modification, cellular differentiation, and cancer, particularly melanoma.Martha J. Bailey, ''American women in ...

* 2011:

Susan Band Horwitz Susan Band Horwitz is an American biochemist and professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine where she holds the Falkenstein chair in Cancer Research as well as co-chair of the department of Molecular Pharmacology. Horwitz is a pioneer i ...

* 2010:

Janet D. Rowley Janet Davison Rowley (April 5, 1925 – December 17, 2013) was an American human geneticist and the first scientist to identify a chromosomal translocation as the cause of leukemia and other cancers, thus proving that cancer is a genetic disease. ...

* 2009: Joseph F. Fraumeni, Jr. * 2008:

Harald zur Hausen Harald zur Hausen NAS EASA APS (; born 11 March 1936) is a German virologist and professor emeritus. He has done research on cervical cancer and discovered the role of papilloma viruses in cervical cancer, for which he received the Nobe ...

* 2007:

Donald Metcalf Donald Metcalf AC FRS FAA (26 February 1929 – 15 December 2014) was an Australian medical researcher who spent most of his career at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne. In 1954 he received the Carden ...

* 2006: Bernard Fisher * 2005: Alfred G. Knudson, Jr. * 2004:

Emil Frei Emil "Tom" Frei III (February 21, 1924 – April 30, 2013) was an American physician and oncologist. He was the former director and former physician-in-chief of the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts. He was also the Richard a ...

III

AACR Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cancer Research

This award recognizes the outstanding research of investigators under the age of 40. * This award has not been given since 2016. * 2016:

Franziska Michor Franziska Michor (born 1982) is an Austrian-American computational biologist who is a Professor in the Department of Data Science at the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute. She serves as Director of the Physical Sciences-Oncology Center and the Cente ...

* 2015: Christopher R. Vakoc * 2014: Nima Sharifi * 2013: Roger S. Lo * 2012:

Yibin Kang Yibin (; Sichuanese Pinyin: nyi2bin1; Sichuanese pronunciation: ) is a prefecture-level city in the southeastern part of Sichuan province, China, located at the junction of the Min and Yangtze Rivers. Its population was 4,588,804 inhabitants, ac ...

* 2011: Nathanael S. Gray * 2010:

Joshua T. Mendell Joshua T. Mendell is an American molecular biologist who is a professor of molecular biology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, where he is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. Before moving to UT Southwestern, Mendel ...

* 2009: Victor Velculescu * 2008: Arul Chinnaiyan * 2007:

Kornelia Polyak Kornelia Polyak is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and an internationally recognized breast cancer expert. Polyak earned her MD from Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Medical University in Szeged, Hungary, and her PhD from Weill Cornell Gra ...

* 2006:

Ivan Dikic Ivan () is a Slavic male given name, connected with the variant of the Greek name (English: John) from Hebrew meaning 'God is gracious'. It is associated worldwide with Slavic countries. The earliest person known to bear the name was Bulgari ...

* 2005: Gregory J. Hannon * 2004: Xiaodong Wang * 2003: none * 2002:

Todd R. Golub Todd R. Golub is a Professor of Pediatrics at the Harvard Medical School, the Charles A. Dana Investigator in Human Cancer Genetics at the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute, and thDirectorand a founding member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvar ...

* 2001:

Scott W. Lowe Scott William Lowe (born October 4, 1963) is Chair of the Cancer Biology and Genetics Program in the Sloan Kettering Institute at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He is recognized for his research on the tumor suppressor gene, p53, which i ...

* 2000:

Nikola P. Pavletich Nikola Panayot Pavletich is the former chair of structural biology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Education Pavletich received his BS in chemistry from Caltech in 1988 and his PhD in molecular biology and genetics from Johns Hopkins Uni ...

* 1999:

John Kuriyan John Kuriyan is the Dean of Basic Sciences and a Professor of Biochemistry at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. He was formerly the Chancellor's Professor at the University of California, Berkeley in the departments of Molecular and Cell Bi ...

* 1998:

Michael C. Dean Michael may refer to: People * Michael (given name), a given name * Michael (surname), including a list of people with the surname Michael Given name "Michael" * Michael (archangel), ''first'' of God's archangels in the Jewish, Christian an ...

* 1997: Tyler Jacks * 1996:

Carol W. Greider Carolyn Widney Greider (born April 15, 1961) is an American molecular biologist and Nobel laureate. She joined the University of California, Santa Cruz as a Distinguished Professor in the department of molecular, cell, and developmental biology ...

* 1995: Eric S. Lander * 1994:

Igor B. Roninson Igor may refer to: People * Igor (given name), an East Slavic given name and a list of people with the name * Mighty Igor (1931–2002), former American professional wrestler * Igor Volkoff, a professional wrestler from NWA All-Star Wrestling ...

* 1993: Tom Curran * 1992:

Elizabeth Robertson Elizabeth Jane Robertson is a British developmental biologist based at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford. She is Professor of Developmental Biology at Oxford and a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow. She is ...

* 1991:

Richard C. Mulligan Richard C. Mulligan, Ph.D., (born 1954) is the Mallinckrodt Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, and Director of the Harvard Gene Therapy Initiative. He is a Director of Enzon Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and Biogen Idec, Inc. Awards * 198 ...

* 1990: Ronald M. Evans * 1989:

Bert Vogelstein Bert Vogelstein (born 1949) is director of the Ludwig Center, Clayton Professor of Oncology and Pathology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at The Johns Hopkins Medical School and Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center. A pion ...

* 1988:

Webster K. Cavenee Webster K. "Web" Cavenee (born 1951) is the Director of Strategic Alliances in Central Nervous System Cancers at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and Distinguished Professor at the University of California, San Diego. He was the Director of ...

* 1987:

Peter M. Blumberg Peter may refer to: People * List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Peter (given name) ** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church * Peter (surname), a su ...

* 1986: Mariano Barbacid * 1985:

Lance A. Liotta Lance A. Liotta (born July 12, 1947) is the co-director and co-founder of the Center for Applied Proteomics and Molecular Medicine (CAPMM) at George Mason University. His research team was the first to propose the existence of the autocrine motil ...

* 1984: Charles D. Stiles * 1983:

Susan Astrin Susan is a feminine given name, from Persian "Susan" (lily flower), from Egyptian '' sšn'' and Coptic ''shoshen'' meaning "lotus flower", from Hebrew ''Shoshana'' meaning "lily" (in modern Hebrew this also means "rose" and a flower in general), ...

* 1982:

Stuart A. Aaronson Stuart A. Aaronson (born February 28, 1942) is an American author and cancer biologist. He has authored more than 500 publications and holds over 50 patents, and was the Jane B. and Jack R. Aron Professor of Neoplastic Diseases and Chairman of On ...

* 1981: Yung-Chi Cheng * 1980: Malcolm A. S. Moore

AACR Joseph H. Burchenal Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Cancer Research

This award is given for achievements in clinical research. * 2019:

Susan L. Cohn Susan Lerner Cohn is a professor of pediatrics and section chief of oncology and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation at the Pritzker School of Medicine of the University of Chicago. She is recognized for her contributions to pediatric oncology ...

* 2018: Johann S. de Bono * 2017: Judy E. Garber * 2016: John C. Byrd * 2015:

Elizabeth M. Jaffee Elizabeth M. Jaffee is an American oncologist specializing in pancreatic cancer and immunotherapy. Education Jaffee completed her undergraduate degree at Brandeis University in 1981 and earned her MD from New York Medical College in 1985. Follo ...

* 2014:

John F. DiPersio John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second ...

* 2013: Hagop M. Kantarjian * 2012: Lawrence H. Einhorn * 2011: Ching-Hon Pui * 2010:

Henry T. Lynch Henry Thompson Lynch (January 4, 1928 – June 2, 2019) was an American physician noted for his discovery of familial susceptibility to certain kinds of cancer and his research into genetic links to cancer. He is sometimes described as "the fat ...

* 2009:

W. Marston Linehan W. may refer to: * SoHo (Australian TV channel) (previously W.), an Australian pay television channel * W. (film), ''W.'' (film), a 2008 American biographical drama film based on the life of George W. Bush * "W.", the fifth track from Codeine's 199 ...

* 2008: Joseph R. Bertino * 2007: Kenneth C. Anderson * 2006:

Merrill J. Egorin Merrill may refer to: Places in the United States *Merrill Field, Anchorage, Alaska *Merrill, Iowa * Merrill, Maine *Merrill, Michigan *Merrill, Mississippi, an unincorporated community near Lucedale in George County *Merrill, Oregon *Merrill, Wis ...

* 2005:

Jimmie C. Holland Jimmie Coker Holland (April 9, 1928 – December 24, 2017) was a founder of the field of psycho-oncology.National Library of Medicine, Changing the Face of MedicineDr. Jimmie C. HollandPage accessed March 28, 2016 In 1977, she worked with two ...

* 2004:

Clara D. Bloomfield Clara Derber Bloomfield (May 15, 1942 – March 1, 2020), was an American physician and cancer researcher. Her work focused on the genetic changes that are present in certain types of blood cancers, and how those can be utilized to improve treatm ...

* 2003:

David S. Alberts David Stephen Alberts (born 1942) is a former American Director of Research for the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration (NII). Biography David S. Alberts did his undergraduate work was at Ci ...

* 2002: Lee M. Nadler * 2001: Rainer F. Storb * 2000: Waun Ki Hong * 1999: John Mendelsohn * 1998: Bernard Fisher * 1997: Ronald Levy * 1996:

Samuel A. Wells Jr. Samuel ''Šəmūʾēl'', Tiberian Hebrew, Tiberian: ''Šămūʾēl''; ar, شموئيل or صموئيل '; el, Σαμουήλ ''Samouḗl''; la, Samūēl is a figure who, in the narratives of the Hebrew Bible, plays a key role in the transit ...

AACR-CRI Lloyd J. Old Award in Cancer Immunology

This award is given for major contributions to the field of

cancer immunology Cancer immunology is an interdisciplinary branch of biology that is concerned with understanding the role of the immune system in the progression and development of cancer; the most well known application is cancer immunotherapy, which utilises ...

. * 2018:

Antoni Ribas Antoni Ribas i Piera (27 October 1935 – 3 October 2007) was a Catalan Spanish film director and screenwriter. He directed 15 films between 1966 and 2007. His 1973 film ''La otra imagen'' was entered into the 1973 Cannes Film Festival. Fi ...

* 2017: Olivera Finn * 2016: Ronald Levy * 2015:

Carl H. June Carl H. June (born 1953) is an American immunologist and oncologist. He is currently the Richard W. Vague Professor in Immunotherapy in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pen ...

* 2014:

Robert D. Schreiber Robert D. Schreiber (born 1946) is an immunologist and currently is the Alumni Endowed Professor of Pathology and Immunology at Washington University School of Medicine. Schreiber has led a major revision in our understanding of how the immune ...

* 2013: James P. Allison

AACR-Prevent Cancer Foundation Award for Excellence in Cancer Prevention Research

This award is given to scientists for have made significant discoveries in cancer prevention. * 2014:

Graham A. Colditz Graham and Graeme may refer to: People * Graham (given name), an English-language given name * Graham (surname), an English-language surname * Graeme (surname), an English-language surname * Graham (musician) (born 1979), Burmese singer * Clan Gr ...

* 2013: John P. Pierce * 2012:

Jack Cuzick Jack Martin Cuzick (born 11 August 1948) is an American-born British academic, director of the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine in London and head of the Centre for Cancer Prevention. He is the John Snow Professor of Epidemiology at the W ...

* 2011: Andrew J. Dannenberg * 2010: John D. Groopman * 2009: Mark W. Schiffman * 2008: Frank L. Meyskens, Jr. * 2007: Leslie Bernstein * 2006: Stephen S. Hecht * 2005: Scott M. Lippman * 2004:

* 2003: Waun Ki Hong

AACR Princess Takamatsu Memorial Lectureship

This award recognizes successful scientists dedicated to international collaborations. * 2018: Lisa M. Coussens * 2017:

Louis M. Staudt Louis Michael Staudt is a scientist at the National Cancer Institute, where he is co-chief of the Lymphoid Malignancies Branch and the director of the Center for Cancer Genomics. Early life and education Staudt was born in 1955 in Michigan. Stau ...

* 2016:

William G. Kaelin Jr. William G. Kaelin Jr. (born November 23, 1957) is an American Nobel Laureate physician-scientist. He is a professor of medicine at Harvard University and the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute. His laboratory studies tumor suppressor proteins. In 201 ...

* 2015:

Lewis C. Cantley Lewis C. Cantley (born February 20, 1949) is an American cell biologist and biochemist who has made significant advances to the understanding of cancer metabolism. Among his most notable contributions are the discovery and study of the enzyme PI-3 ...

* 2014: Rakesh K. Jain * 2013:

Carlo M. Croce Carlo Maria Croce (born December 17, 1944) is an Italian-American professor of medicine at Ohio State University, specializing in oncology and the molecular mechanisms underlying cancer. Croce and his research have attracted public attention beca ...

* 2012: Mary J.C. Hendrix * 2011:

Philip Hanawalt Philip C. Hanawalt (born 1931) is an American biologist who discovered the process of repair replication of damaged DNA in 1963. He is also considered the co-discoverer of the ubiquitous process of DNA excision repair along with his mentor, Ri ...

* 2010: Mary-Claire King * 2009:

Curtis C. Harris Curtis. C. Harris is the head of the Molecular Genetics and Carcinogenesis Section and chief of the Laboratory of Human Carcinogenesis at the Center for Cancer Research of the National Cancer Institute, NIH. Harris graduated from University of ...

* 2008: Lawrence A. Loeb * 2007:

* 2002: Michael B. Sporn

AACR Team Science Award

This award is given to promote collaboration to further breakthroughs in cancer research. * 2018: Genomic Approaches to Preventing and Treating Asian-Prevalent Cancers Team" :: Patrick Tan, Steven G. Rozen, Sen-Yung Hsieh, Chiea Chuen Khor, Narong Khuntikeo,

Soon Thye Lim Soon may refer to: Music * ''Soon'' (musical), a 1971 rock opera by Joseph M. Kookolis and Scott Fagan Albums * ''Soon'' (album), a 1993 album by Tanya Tucker, and the title song (see below) * ''Soon'' (EP), a 1997 EP by Far Songs * ...

, Choon Kiat Ong, Chawalit Pairojkul, See-Tong Pang,

Tatsuhiro Shibata is a professional Japanese baseball player. He plays infielder for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars The are a professional baseball team in the Japan, Japanese Central League. Their home field is Yokohama Stadium, located in central Yokohama. The ...

, Bin Tean Teh * 2017: International Liquid Biopsy Initiative Team" ::

Luis A. Diaz Luis Alberto Diaz, Jr. is the Head of the Division of Solid Tumor Oncology in Memorial Sloan Kettering’s Department of Medicine. Education and career Diaz earned his undergraduate and medical degree at the University of Michigan and Michiga ...

, Nishant Agrawal, Chetan Bettegowda, Frank Diehl, Peter Gibbs, Stanley R. Hamilton, Ralph H. Hruban,

Hartmut Juhl Hartmut is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Hartmut of Saint Gall (died 905), Benedictine abbot *Hartmut Bagger (born 1938), retired German general of the Bundeswehr *Hartmut Becker (born 1938), German actor *Hartmut Boockmann ...

, Isaac Kinde, Kenneth Kinzler,

Martin Nowak Martin Andreas Nowak (born April 7, 1965) is an Austrian-born professor of Mathematical and theoretical biology, mathematical biology, at Harvard University since 2003. He is one of the leading researchers in the field that studies the role of co ...

, Nickolas Papadopoulos,

David Sidransky David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". w ...

, Jeanne Tie, Victor E. Velculescu,

* 2016: Women's Health Initiative Team: ::

Ross L. Prentice Ross L. Prentice (born October 16, 1946) is a Canadian statistician known particularly for his contributions to survival analysis and statistical methods for epidemiology. He has worked at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in 1974 and is ...

Garnet L. Anderson Garnet Larae Anderson is an American biostatistician, known for her research on the health risks caused by side effects of postmenopausal hormone therapy, and more generally as one of the leading researchers in the Women's Health Initiative. She ...

, Bette Caan, Rowan T. Chlebowski, Rebecca D. Jackson,

Charles Kooperberg Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "f ...

, JoAnn E. Manson, Electra D. Paskett,

Jacques E. Rossouw Ancient and noble French family names, Jacques, Jacq, or James are believed to originate from the Middle Ages in the historic northwest Brittany region in France, and have since spread around the world over the centuries. To date, there are over ...

, Sally A. Shumaker, Marcia L. Stefanick, Cynthia Ann Thomson, Jean Wactawski-Wende * 2015: Designing AR Inhibitors Team: ::

Charles L. Sawyers Charles L. Sawyers (born 1959) is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator who holds the Marie-Josée Drouin, Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Chair (academic), Chair of the Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program (HOPP) at Memorial S ...

Michael E. Jung Michael E. Jung is a Professor of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California at Los Angeles. Michael Jung was born May 14, 1947 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Early life and education Jung received a B. ...

, Howard Scher * 2014:

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...

Johns Hopkins Johns Hopkins (May 19, 1795 – December 24, 1873) was an American merchant, investor, and philanthropist. Born on a plantation, he left his home to start a career at the age of 17, and settled in Baltimore, Maryland where he remained for most ...

, and NCI Malignant Brain Tumor Team: ::

Darell D. Bigner Darell is a given name derived from an English surname, which was derived from Norman language, Norman-French , originally denoting one who came from Airelle in France. There are no longer any towns in France called Airelle, but is the French word ...

Ira Pastan Ira Pastan (born in Winthrop, Massachusetts June 1, 1931) is an American scientist at the National Cancer Institute. He is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the American Associa ...

, Daniel Barboriak, Oren J. Becher, Thomas J. Cummings, Annick Desjardins,

Allan Friedman Allan Howard Friedman is the Guy L. Odom Professor of Neurological Surgery (neurosurgery) at Duke University Medical Center, specializing in tumor and vascular neurosurgery. He has been on the Duke faculty since 1981. Friedman was born in Chicago, ...

, Henry S. Friedman,

Matthias Gromeier Dr. Matthias Gromeier is a Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at Duke University Medical Center, who has developed a way to re-engineer a poliovirus to inspire the human immune system to kill cancer cells in a specific set of cancers. The r ...

, Sridharan Gururangan, Yiping He,

Kenneth W. Kinzler Kenneth Wayne Kinzler (born January 30, 1962) is a professor of oncology, and director of the Ludwig Center at Johns Hopkins University at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center. Kinzler received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 198 ...

, Chien-Tsun Kuan, Roger E. McLendon, Nickolas Papadopoulos,

Katherine B. Peters Katherine, also spelled Catherine, and other variations are feminine names. They are popular in Christian countries because of their derivation from the name of one of the first Christian saints, Catherine of Alexandria. In the early Chris ...

, Tulika Ranjan, B. K. Ahmed Rasheed, John H. Sampson, Victor E. Velculescu, Gordana Vlahovic, Jason A. Watts, Hai Yan,

Michael R. Zalutsky Michael may refer to: People * Michael (given name), a given name * Michael (surname), including a list of people with the surname Michael Given name "Michael" * Michael (archangel), ''first'' of God's archangels in the Jewish, Christian and ...

* 2013: Johns Hopkins Pancreatic Cancer Sequencing Team in the Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center at Johns Hopkins University: :: Ralph H. Hruban,

N. Volkan Adsay N is the fourteenth letter of the Latin alphabet. N or n may also refer to: Mathematics * \mathbb, the set of natural numbers * N, the field norm * N for ''nullae'', a rare Roman numeral for zero * n, the size of a statistical sample Sc ...

Peter J. Allen Peter may refer to: People * List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Peter (given name) ** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church * Peter (surname), a su ...

, Michael A. Choti,

, James R. Eshleman, Michael G. Goggins, Joseph M. Herman, Christine A. Iacobuzio-Donahue,

Scott E. Kern Scott may refer to: Places Canada * Scott, Quebec, municipality in the Nouvelle-Beauce regional municipality in Quebec * Scott, Saskatchewan, a town in the Rural Municipality of Tramping Lake No. 380 * Rural Municipality of Scott No. 98, Saskat ...

, Alison P. Klein, David S. Klimstra, Anirban Maitra, Alan K. Meeker, Nickolas Papadopoulos, Victor E. Velculescu,

, Christopher L. Wolfgang, Laura DeLong Wood * 2012: The

Institute of Cancer Research The Institute of Cancer Research (the ICR) is a public research institute and a member institution of the University of London in London, United Kingdom, specialising in oncology. It was founded in 1909 as a research department of the Royal Mar ...

(ICR) and Royal Marsden Hospital: Cancer Research UK Cancer Therapeutics Unit and Drug Development Units: ::

Bissan Al-Lazikani Professor Bissan Al-Lazikani PhD FRSB MBCS is a data scientist and drug discoverer. She applies computational techniques to help solve critical bottlenecks in cancer drug discovery and development. Since 2021 she has been professor of genomic m ...

, Udai Banerji,

Julian Blagg Julian may refer to: People * Julian (emperor) (331–363), Roman emperor from 361 to 363 * Julian (Rome), referring to the Roman gens Julia, with imperial dynasty offshoots * Saint Julian (disambiguation), several Christian saints * Julian (giv ...

, Ian Collins, Johann De Bono, Sue Eccles,

Michelle Garrett Michelle may refer to: People *Michelle (name), a given name and surname, the feminine form of Michael * Michelle Courtens, Dutch singer, performing as "Michelle" * Michelle (German singer) * Michelle (Scottish singer) (born 1980), Scottish wi ...

Swen Hoelder Swen is a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include Given name *Swen Gillberg, visual effects supervisor * Swen König (born 1985), Swiss footballer *Swen Nater (born 1950), Dutch basketball player * Swen Schuller (born 1971), ...

, Keith Jones,

Stan Kaye Stan or STAN may refer to: People * Stan (given name), a list of people with the given name ** Stan Laurel (1890–1965), English comic actor, part of duo Laurel and Hardy * Stan (surname), a Romanian surname * Stan! (born 1964), American author, ...

, Spiros Linardopoulos,

Richard Marais Richard Malcolm Marais is Director of the Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Manchester Institute and Professor of Molecular Oncology at the University of Manchester. Education Marais was educated at University College London where he was awarded a Bac ...

Flo Raynaud ''Flo'' is an American sitcom television series and a spin-off (media), spin-off of ''Alice (American TV series), Alice'' that aired on CBS from March 24, 1980, to June 30, 1981. The series starred Polly Holliday reprising her role as sassy and s ...

, Caroline Springer, Rob van Montfort, Paul Workman * 2011: Seattle HPV Research Team: :: Janet R. Daling, Denise A. Galloway, James Hughes, Nancy B. Kiviat,

Laura Koutsky Laura may refer to: People * Laura (given name) * Laura, the British code name for the World War I Belgian spy Marthe Cnockaert Places Australia * Laura, Queensland, a town on the Cape York Peninsula * Laura, South Australia * Laura Bay, a bay ...

, Margaret M. Madeleine, Constance Mao,

Barbara McKnight Barbara may refer to: People * Barbara (given name) * Barbara (painter) (1915–2002), pseudonym of Olga Biglieri, Italian futurist painter * Barbara (singer) (1930–1997), French singer * Barbara Popović (born 2000), also known mononymously ...

Peggy L. Porter Peggy may refer to: People * Peggy (given name), people with the given name or nickname Arts and entertainment * ''Peggy'' (musical), a 1911 musical comedy by Stuart and Bovill * ''Peggy'' (album), a 1977 Peggy Lee album * ''Peggy'' (191 ...

, Stephen M. Schwartz,

Hisham K. Tamimi Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik ( ar, هشام بن عبد الملك, Hishām ibn ʿAbd al-Malik; 691 – 6 February 743) was the tenth Umayyad caliph, ruling from 724 until his death in 743. Early life Hisham was born in Damascus, the administrat ...

, Long-fu Xi * 2010: Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center Thoracic Oncology Research Team: :: Michael J. Eck, Jeffery Engelman,

Nathanael Gray Nathanael S. Gray is a Krishnan-Shah Family Professor of chemical and systems biology at Stanford University and director of cancer therapeutics programme at Stanford University School of Medicine. Previously he was a Nancy Lurie Marks Professor ...

Daniel Haber Daniel A. Haber is the director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, a professor of oncology at Harvard Medical School, and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). Career Haber earned his B.S. in life sci ...

, Pasi A. Janne, Bruce E. Johnson, Susumu Kobayashi,

Eunice Kwak Eunice is a feminine given name, from the Greek Εὐνίκη, ''Euníkē'', from "eu", good, and "níkē", victory. Eunice is also a relatively rare last name, found in Nigeria and the Southeastern United States, chiefly Louisiana and Georgia. Pe ...

, Neal Lindeman, Thomas J. Lynch, Shyamala Maheswaran, Matthew L. Meyerson,

Lecia V. Sequist Leica Camera AG () is a German company that manufactures cameras, optical lenses, photographic lenses, binoculars, rifle scopes and microscopes. The company was founded by Ernst Leitz in 1869 (Ernst Leitz Wetzlar), in Wetzlar, Germany. In ...

, Jeffery Settleman,

Daniel G. Tenen Daniel is a masculine given name and a surname of Hebrew origin. It means "God is my judge"Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 68. (cf. Gabriel—"God is my strength" ...

Mehmet Toner Mehmet Toner (born 1958) is a Turkish biomedical engineer. He is currently the Helen Andrus Benedict Professor of Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School, with a joint appointment as professor at the Harvard-M ...

, Kwok-Kin Wong * 2009:

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is a pediatric treatment and research facility located in Memphis, Tennessee. Founded in 1962, it is a 501(c)(3) designated nonprofit medical corporation which focuses on children's catastrophic diseases, pa ...

Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Team: :: Dario Campana, Cheng Cheng,

James R. Downing James R. Downing is an American clinical executive. He is the president and chief executive officer of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Early life and education James R. Downing was born to Lillian and Robert W. Downing and grew up in De ...

, William E. Evans, Melissa M. Hudson, Sima Jeha,

Charles Mullighan Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "f ...

, Ching-Hon Pui, Susana C. Raimondi, Mary V. Relling, Raul C. Ribeiro * 2008: University of California San Francisco, the

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), commonly referred to as the Berkeley Lab, is a United States Department of Energy National Labs, United States national laboratory that is owned by, and conducts scientific research on behalf of, t ...

and

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