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…
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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…
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…
The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) is committed to increasing diversity in the field of cancer research and reducing cancer health disparities experienced by…
When the global pandemic led to widespread lockdowns earlier this year, it quickly became clear that the AACR’s schedule of on-site scientific meetings would not…
Antoni Ribas, MD, PhD, officially became president of the AACR for 2020-2021 under unusual circumstances. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, his elevation to president took…
In September 2020, the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) released the AACR Cancer Disparities Progress Report 2020. This historic document, the first-ever report of…
Anna D. Barker, PhD, does not shy away from large projects undertaken to advance cancer science. As principal deputy director and deputy director of strategic scientific…