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…
Category:Researchers
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…
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about many changes in our personal and professional lives. Among many other adjustments, the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)…
Emmanuelle Charpentier, PhD (left), and Jennifer A. Doudna, PhD (right), both Fellows of the AACR Academy since 2017, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry…
An Amazing Opportunity Siddharth (Sid) Sheth, DO, MPH, offers a first-person take on receiving the AACR-AstraZeneca-MedImmune Immuno-oncology Research Training Fellowship: During my medical oncology…