Reflecting the interplay among all aspects of cancer research, the AACR Annual Meeting 2022 featured the theme “Decoding Cancer Complexity, Integrating Science, Transforming Patient Outcomes.”…
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While in medical school at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in the 1980s, Charles L. Sawyers’ eyes were opened to the knowledge that could be…
In 2013, Charles Sawyers, MD, had the idea that cancer institutions should pool their patients’ clinical sequencing data to speed up cancer research. Now, Dr.…
The achievements, negative impacts, challenges, improvements in cancer care, and lessons learned in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic are detailed in the AACR Report…
In 2020, the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation (BMSF), in partnership with the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), announced a multiyear initiative with two major goals:…
John D. Carpten, PhD, was staring at data on a computer screen at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, in 1995. Dr.…
Two Fellows of the American Association for Cancer Research (FAACR) Academy—one of them a member of the AACR Board of Directors—were among three researchers awarded…
The Lustgarten Foundation: Honoring Two American Icons Lost to Pancreatic Cancer In 2020, the Lustgarten Foundation and the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) established…
What do Drs. Emmanuelle Charpentier, Jennifer A. Doudna, William G. Kaelin Jr., Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe, Gregg L. Semenza, James P. Allison, and Tasuku Honjo…
Her groundbreaking research to discover the properties of Taxol (paclitaxel) led to an effective cancer treatment. In 1977, Susan Band Horwitz, PhD, was an assistant…