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…
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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 1970, there were a small number of effective cancer treatments and a limited knowledge of cancer biology and prevention strategies. Researchers, clinicians, cancer survivors,…
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…
The amount of research on blood cancers has doubled in the past decade, and discoveries in this area have paved the way for revolutionary therapies…
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…