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Samuel Abraham, Ph.D.
(9/23/1923 – 3/16/2012)
Emeritus Member since 1958
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Dr. Abraham, an Emeritus member of the AACR, died on March 16, 2012, at the age of 88. Abraham became a member of the AACR in 1958. Read More.
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Thomas J. Bardos, Ph.D.
(7/20/1915 – 5/15/2012)
Emeritus Member since 1959
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The AACR-Thomas J. Bardos Science Education Awards for Undergraduate Students were named in honor of Bardos’ support for the awards. They are presented annually to these students in order to inspire them to enter the field of cancer research. Read More.
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Howard A. Bern, Ph.D.
(1/30/1920 – 1/3/2012)
Emeritus Member since 1957
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Dr. Bern, professor emeritus of integrative biology and research endocrinologist at the Cancer Research Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, died on Jan. 3, 2012. Read More.
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June L. Biedler, Ph.D.
(6/24/1925 – 4/16/2012)
Emeritus Member since 1968
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Dr. Biedler received the 1992 AACR G.H.A. Clowes Memorial Award for her groundbreaking work on cancer therapeutic agents. She was the Distinguished Cell Biology Cancer Research Scientist at Memorial Sloan. Read More.
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Rose K. Busch, M.S.
(11/12/1922 – 7/6/2012)
Emeritus Member since 1981
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Mrs. Busch died on July 5, 2012, at the age of 89. She was the wife of the late Harris Busch, M.D., Ph.D., AACR past-president, who served from 1989 to 1990. Read More.
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O. Michael Colvin, M.D.
(6/15/1936 – 3/16/2013)
Emeritus Member since 1975
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An AACR member since 1975, Dr. Colvin died on March 16 at the age of 76. He was professor emeritus of medicine at Duke University in Durham, N.C. Read More.
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William E. Delaney III, M.D.
(8/17/1927– 6/11/2012)
Emeritus Member since 1983
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Dr. Delaney was born on Aug. 17, 1927, in Williamsport, Pa. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and then graduated from Villanova University, Villanova, Pa. and Jefferson Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pa. Read More.
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Renato Dulbecco, M.D.
(2/22/1914 – 2/19/2012)
Emeritus Member since 1962
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Dr. Dulbecco, winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology and an Emeritus member of the AACR, died on Feb. 19, 2012, in La Jolla, Calif. Dulbecco would have been 98 years old on Feb. 22. Read More.
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John R. Durant, M.D.
(7/29/1930 – 10/28/2012)
Emeritus Member since 1968
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Emil T. Frei, III, M.D.
(2/21/1924 – 4/30/2013)
Honorary Member since 1959
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Emil “Tom” Frei III, M.D., AACR past-president (1971-1972) and a member for 54 years, died on April 30 at the age of 89. Frei was physician-in-chief emeritus and former director of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Richard and Susan Smith distinguished professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Mass. Read More.
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Friedrich Hirsch, M.D.
(12/15/1946 – 9/11/2012)
Active Member since 1993
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Dr. Hirsch, former director of the Department of Hematology and Oncology, Gastroenterology at Ortenau Klinikum in Offenburg, Germany, died recently at the age of 65. Read More.
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Funan Hu, M.D.
(9/13/1919 – 3/21/2012)
Emeritus Member since 1960
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Dr. Hu, an Emeritus member of the AACR, died on March 21, 2012. She is credited as being the first researcher to grow melanoma cells in culture at a time when the field of cell culture was just developing. Read More.
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Yoji Ikawa, M.D., Ph.D.
(11/21/1934 – 4/30/2012)
Active Member since 1972
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Dr. Ikawa was a research scientist and adjunct professor in the department of hematology at Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan.
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Elwood V. Jensen, Ph.D.
(1/13/1920 – 12/16/2012)
Emeritus Member since 1951
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Dr. Jensen, an AACR member since 1951, died at the age of 92. Jensen discovered the importance of estrogen receptors in breast cancer, which led to new treatments for patients with estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer. Read More.
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Barton A. Kamen, M.D., Ph.D.
(9/30/1948 – 9/27/2012)
Active Member since 1983
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Dr. Kamen died at the age of 63. Kamen was the director of pediatric hematology-oncology and associate director of The Cancer Institute of New Jersey/Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, N.J. Read More.
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John H. Kersey, M.D.
(4/22/1938 – 3/10/2013)
Emeritus Member since 1975
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Dr. Kersey, leader of the medical team that performed the world’s first bone marrow transplant for lymphoma, died on March 10 at the age of 74. Read More.
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Yoichi Konishi, M.D., Ph.D.
(4/16/1935 – 12/21/2012)
Emeritus Member since 1994
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Dr. Konishi, an AACR emeritus member, died on Dec. 21, at the age of 77. Konishi was an emeritus professor at Nara Medical University in Kashihara, Japan. Read More.
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Irena Koprowska, M.D.
(5/12/1917 – 8/16/2012)
Emeritus Member since 1963
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Robert C. Millikan, Ph.D.
(8/24/1957 – 10/7/2012)
Active Member since 2004
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Dr. Millikan was the Barbara Sorenson Hulka Distinguished Professor of Cancer Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health in Chapel Hill, N.C. Read More.
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Richard M. Peck, Ph.D.
(3/1/1921 – 1/2/2012)
Emeritus Member since 1955
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Dr. Peck received his doctorate from the University of Maryland and then spent his entire career with the Institute for Cancer Research at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, Pa. He was an organic chemist who worked synthesizing antitumor compounds.
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M. Moira Davison Reynolds, Ph.D.
(6/22/1915 – 6/7/2012)
Emeritus Member since 1960
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Dr. Reynolds received her bachelor’s degree from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and then began working at Quincy Hospital in Quincy, Mass. Read More.
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Robert D. Stout, Ph.D.
(8/20/1945 – 5/25/2012)
Active Member since 2007
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Dr. Stoudt, professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of Louisville School of Medicine in Kentucky, died at the age of 66. Read More.
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E. Donnall Thomas, M.D.
(3/15/1920 – 10/20/2012)
Member since 1971
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Dr. Thomas received a Nobel Prize for his pioneering bone marrow transplantation research. His work transformed leukemia and related cancers, which were once thought incurable, into treatable diseases with survival rates up to 90 percent. Read More.
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George D. Wilbanks, M.D.
(2/24/1931 – 6/3/2012)
Member since 1969
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George D. Wilbanks Jr., M.D., died on June 3, 2012, at the age of 81. Wilbanks, a cancer researcher, surgeon and professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Rush Medical College in Chicago, Ill., was an emeritus member of the AACR. Read More.
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