It is with deep regret and profound sadness that we report the death of the following AACR members. The AACR is honored to recognize these outstanding members for their dedication to the association and to the field of cancer. Please note that this information is only that which has been volunteered to us by colleagues, friends, and family. The following list includes members who have passed away in the current year. Please email the
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Deceased Members in 2016
Aleck Borman
(7/13/1919 - 7/4/2016)
Member since 1963
Aleck Borman, PhD, emeritus member of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), died July 4, 2016, at the age of 96. Borman was a scientist and labor relations manager at the company now known as Bristol-Myers Squibb and served as the first duly elected mayor of East Brunswick, New Jersey. Borman first joined the AACR in 1963.
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Michael G. Brattain
(10/31/1947 - 3/5/2016)
Member since 1977
Michael Brattain, PhD, professor at the Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and associate director for basic research in the Fred and Pamela Buffett Cancer Center at the University of Nebraska in Omaha, died March 5, 2016, at the age of 68.
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Robert W. Brockman
(12/8/1924 - 4/21/2016)
Member since 1958
Robert Wallace Brockman, PhD, emeritus member of the American Association for Cancer Research, died April 21, 2016, at the age of 91. Brockman joined the AACR in 1958 and served as an associate editor for Cancer Research.
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Gregory A. Curt
(7/26/1952 - 7/31/2016)
Member since 2004
Gregory A. Curt, MD, executive director for external relations, U.S. medical affairs, oncology, at AstraZeneca, died July 31, 2016, at the age of 64. Curt was an active AACR member since 2004.
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Nadeera De Silva
(- 3/10/2016)
Member since 2015
Nadeera De Silva, MBBCH, clinical researcher and oncologist at the MRC Cancer Unit, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, died in March 2016 at the age of 34. He was an associate member of the AACR.
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Nathan Kaufman
(8/3/1915 - 5/11/2016)
Member since 1953
Nathan Kaufman, MD, a longtime member of the AACR and professor emeritus of pathology and molecular medicine at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, died May 11, 2016. He was 100.
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George Klein
(7/28/1925 - 12/10/2016)
Member since 1961
George Klein, MD, PhD, professor emeritus of tumor biology at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, died on December 10, 2016, at the age of 91. Klein was a Fellow of the AACR Academy and had been an AACR member since 1961.
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Alfred G. Knudson
(8/9/1922 - 7/10/2016)
Member since 1976
Alfred G. Knudson Jr., MD, PhD, Fellow of the AACR Academy, died July 10, 2016, at the age of 93. Knudson was a pioneering cancer researcher who is internationally recognized for his groundbreaking “two-hit” hypothesis, which helped provide the basis for our current understanding of the genetic origins of cancer.
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Holbrook E. Kohrt
(12/14/1977 - 2/24/2016)
Member since 2010
Holbrook Edwin Kidd Kohrt, MD, PhD, assistant professor at Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, California, died Feb. 24, 2016, at the age of 38.
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Susan L. Lindquist
(6/5/1949 - 10/27/2016)
Member since 2011
Susan L. Lindquist, PhD, member and former director of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, died Oct. 27, 2016, at the age of 67. Lindquist was an active member of the AACR.
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James J. Mezhir
(6/28/1973 - 2/3/2016)
Member since 2010
James J. Mezhir, MD, assistant professor of surgery in the Division of Surgical Oncology and Endocrine Surgery at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, died Feb. 3, 2016, at the age of 42.
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Enrico Mihich
(1/4/1928 - 12/29/2016)
Member since 1958
Enrico Mihich, MD, presidential scholar and special assistant to the president for sponsored research at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts, died Dec. 29, 2016, at the age of 88.
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D. James Morré
(10/20/1935 - 6/16/2016)
Member since 1979
D. James Morré, PhD, professor emeritus in the Department of Chemistry at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, died June 16, 2016, at the age of 81.
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Peter C. Nowell
(2/8/1928 - 12/26/2016)
Member since 1957
Peter C. Nowell, MD, Fellow of the AACR Academy, died Dec. 26, 2016, at the age of 88. Nowell, the Gaylord P. and Mary Louise Harnwell Professor Emeritus in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, was renowned for his codiscovery of the Philadelphia chromosome, which, for the first time, provided evidence of a genetic basis for cancer.
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Patrick M. O’Connor
(7/30/1960 - 7/4/2016)
Member since 1989
Patrick M. O’Connor, PhD, AACR member since 1989, died July 4, 2016, at the age of 55. O’Connor had most recently served as chief scientific officer and senior vice president, head of research at Ignyta Inc. in San Diego.
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Chung S. Park
(1/14/1942 - 1/18/2016)
Member since 2012
Chung S. Park, PhD, professor in the Department of Animal Sciences at North Dakota State University (NDSU) in Fargo, died Jan. 18, 2016, at the age of 74.
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Richmond T. Prehn
(12/8/1922 - 11/17/2016)
Member since 1953
Richmond T. Prehn, MD, former member of the AACR board of directors, died Nov. 7, 2016, at the age of 93. Prehn, who first joined the organization in 1953, had been an emeritus member of the AACR since 1988.
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Daniel J. Sargent
(8/22/1970 - 9/22/2016)
Member since 2015
Daniel J. Sargent, PhD, an AACR member since 2015, died Sept. 22, 2016, at the age of 46.
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George D. Sorenson
(12/24/1927 - 1/28/2016)
Member since 1979
George D. Sorenson, emeritus professor of pathology at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College in Lebanon, New Hampshire, died Jan. 28, 2016, at the age of 88.
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Ellen L. Stovall
(12/2/1946 - 1/5/2016)
Member since 2001
Ellen L. Stovall, a health policy advisor and member of the American Association for Cancer Research, died January 5, 2016, at the age of 69.
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Roger Y. Tsien
(2/1/1952 - 8/24/2016)
Member since 2011
Roger Y. Tsien, PhD, Nobel laureate and Fellow of the AACR Academy, died Aug. 24, 2016, at the age of 64. Tsien, professor of pharmacology, chemistry, and biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, was an active member of the AACR since 2011.
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Jui H. Wang
(3/16/1921 - 1/17/2016)
Member since 2004
Jui Hsin Wang, PhD, emeritus member of the AACR, died Jan. 17, 2016, at the age of 94. Wang was the Einstein professor of science emeritus at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
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