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Samuel Abraham, Ph.D.
(9/23/1923 – 3/16/2012)
Emeritus Member since 1958
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Samuel Abraham, Ph.D., 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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Clara M. Ambrus, M.D., Ph.D.
(12/28/1924 – 2/26/2011)
Emeritus Member since 1956
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Dr. Ambrus died on February, 26, 2011. She was an Emeritus member of the AACR and a longtime professor of pediatrics and gynecology at the University of Buffalo in New York. Read More… |
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Robert K. Ausman, M.D.
(1/31/1933 – 8/7/2011)
Emeritus Member since 1992
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Dr. Ausman, a member of the AACR since 1962, died on Aug. 7, 2011. Ausman was born on Jan. 31, 1933. He graduated from Marquette University School of Medicine in Milwaukee in 1957 Read More… |
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Thomas L. Beckers, Ph.D.
(4/26/1961 – 1/18/2011)
Active Member since 1997
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Dr. Beckers, an AACR member for 14 years and chief scientific officer of ONCOTEST, died on Jan. 18, 2011. He received his doctorate in biochemistry from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt in Germany. 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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Howard A. Bern, Ph.D., 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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Howard R. Bierman, M.D.
(1/27/1915 – 8/21/2011)
Emeritus Member since 1947
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Dr. Bierman, founder of the Institute for Cancer and Blood Research, died in Los Angeles in August. Dr. Bierman helped develop the modern day oxygen mask, anti-black-out suit, the ejector seat and the shoulder harness to protect American pilots. Read More… |
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Baruch S. Blumberg, M.D., Ph.D.
(7/28/1925 – 4/5/2011)
Active Member since 1969
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Dr. Blumberg, a Nobel Laureate and an AACR member since 1969, died April 5, 2011. He was responsible for major insights into the pathogenesis, diagnosis and prevention of the Hepatitis B virus. Read More… |
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Ricardo Brentani, M.D.
(7/21/1937 – 11/29/2011)
Active Member since 1973
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Dr. Brentani died at the age of 74. Still active in research, he had currently been the president of the Antonio Prudente Foundation and director of the International Center for Research and Teaching of the Hospital A.C. Camargo, which he established, in São Paulo, Brazil. Read More… |
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Angelika M. Burger, Dr.Rer.Nat., Ph.D.
(2/8/1964 – 5/3/2011)
Active Member since 1995
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Dr. Burger, a professor of pharmacology and oncology for the Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, and director of the Translational Research Laboratory at the Karmanos Cancer Institute at the university, died of cancer on May 3, 2011. She was 46. Read More… |
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Daniel M. Byrd, III, Ph.D.
(12/30/1940 – 7/26/2011)
Emeritus Member since 1992
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Dr. Byrd III, an AACR member for 19 years and senior scientific consultant to the Life Sciences Research Organization, died on July 26, 2011. He was 70 years old. Read More… |
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John L. Cantrell, Ph.D.
(2/7/1939 – 12/5/2011)
Emeritus Member since 1975
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John L. Cantrell, Ph.D., died at the age of 72. Cantrell was best known for his discovery of the vaccine adjuvant monophosphoryl lipid A (MPL), which is used to increase vaccines’ effectiveness. Read More… |
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Joseph H. Coggin, Jr., Ph.D.
(2/4/1938 – 8/22/2011)
Emeritus Member since 1971
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Dr. Coggin Jr., professor emeritus of microbiology and immunology at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine, died on August 22, 2011. Dr. Coggin, 73, was an Emeritus member of the AACR. 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. Renato 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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Duane L. Guernsey, Ph.D.
(4/10/1946 – 8/19/2011)
Active Member since 1991
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Dr. Guernsey, of Halifax, Nova Scotia, died on August 19, 2011, at the age of 65. Dr. Guernsey was a professor in pathology, physiology, biophysics, ophthalmology, visual science and surgery at Dalhousie University, in Halifax. Read More… |
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Heine H. Hansen, M.D.
(5/1/1938 – 9/16/2011)
Active Member since 1971
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Dr. Hansen, an AACR member for 40 years, died in Copenhagen on September 16, 2011. He was 73 years old. Read More… |
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Vincent P. Hollander, M.D., Ph.D.
(6/18/1917 – 4/14/2011)
Emeritus Member since 1952
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Dr. Hollander died at his home on April 14, 2011. After serving as a Captain in the Air Force during the Korean War, he was appointed the American Cancer Society Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Virginia in 1960. Read More… |
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Funan Hu, M.D.
(9/13/1919 – 3/21/2012)
Emeritus Member since 1960
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Funan Hu, M.D., 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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Robert B. Hurlbert, Ph.D.
(8/9/1926 – 10/17/2011)
Emeritus Member since 1957
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Dr. Hurlbert passed away on October 17, 2011. He was born in David City, Nebraska in 1926 and left to earn his doctorate at the University of Wisconsin. Read More…
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Ralph F. Kampschmidt, Ph.D.
(5/6/1923 – 1/17/2011)
Emeritus Member since 1959
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Dr. Kampschmidt of Ardmore, Okla., died in January 2011. An Emeritus member, Dr. Kampschmidt worked for the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, where he discovered the body protein Interleukin 1. Read More… |
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Shigeru Kanda, M.D., Ph.D.
(4/20/1958 – 5/23/2011)
Active Member since 2002
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Dr. Kanda, an AACR member for nine years and chief of the department of experimental and clinical laboratory medicine at Nagasaki Hospital, died on May 23, 2011. He was 53 years old. Read More…
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Anne E. Kellogg, M.D.
(8/11/1953 – 1/23/2011)
Active Member since 2004
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Dr. Kellogg, physician and researcher in the pathology department at East Carolina University School of Medicine, in Greenville, N.C., died on Sunday, Jan. 23, 2011, of lung cancer. Dr. Kellogg was 57. Read More… |
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Ronald C. Kennedy, Ph.D.
(11/3/1954 – 6/29/2011)
Active Member since 1992
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Ronald C. Kennedy, Ph.D., died on June 29, 2011, at the age of 57. Kennedy was an AACR member since 1992. Kennedy’s research interests include HIV and AIDS, cancer, hepatitis viruses and maternal-fetal medicine. Read More… |
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Gary D. Kruh, M.D., Ph.D.
(11/1/1951 – 1/5/2011)
Active Member since 1990
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Dr. Kruh passed away in Chicago on Jan. 5, 2011. He was director of the University of Illinois at Chicago Cancer Center, was a professor of medicine at the University of Illinois, and was currently serving on the editorial board of Cancer Research, a journal of the AACR. Read More… |
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Jonathan J. Li, Ph.D.
(8/28/1942 – 8/30/2011)
Active Member since 1983
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Dr. Li, a professor of pharmacology, toxicology and experimental therapeutics at the University of Kansas Medical Center, died on July 30, 2011. He graduated from Brown University in 1963 with degrees in chemistry and philosophy. Read More… |
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Reuben Lotan, Ph.D.
(3/19/1946 – 8/2/2011)
Active Member since 1979
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Dr. Lotan, professor emeritus at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, died on August 2, 2011. Born in Uzbekistan and raised in Israel, Dr. Lotan moved to Houston in 1984. Read More… |
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H. George Mandel, Ph.D.
(6/6/1924 – 7/15/2011)
Emeritus Member since 1956
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Dr. Mandel died of congestive heart failure on July 15, 2011. Born on June 6, 1924 in Germany, he immigrated to the U.S. in 1937 and attended Yale University. Read More… |
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Jyotsana Menon, Ph.D.
(4/22/1975 – 10/29/2011)
Emeritus Member since 1956
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Dr. Menon, an associate member of the AACR, died in 2011. Dr. Menon was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Chicago. She received her doctorate from Wake Forest University. Read More… |
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Ernest A. McCulloch, M.D.
(4/27/1927 – 1/20/2011)
Emeritus Member since 1960
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Dr. McCulloch, an AACR member for 50 years, died in Toronto on January 20, 2011. He was 84 years old. He received his medical degree from the University of Toronto in 1948. Read More… |
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Lloyd J. Old, M.D.
(9/23/1933 – 11/30/2011)
Emeritus Member since 1962
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Dr. Old, widely recognized as a founder of the field of cancer immunology, died on November 28, 2011 from advanced prostate cancer. Read More…
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George A. Omura, M.D.
(4/30/1938 – 4/19/2011)
Emeritus Member since 1977
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Dr. Omura died April 19, 2011 from esophageal cancer. Dr. Omura attended Columbia College where he was awarded the Eisenhower Watch and elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Read More… |
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Morris Pollard, Ph.D.
(5/24/1916 – 6/18/2011)
Emeritus Member since 1993
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Dr. Pollard, a professor emeritus of biological sciences and director of the University of Notre Dame’s Lobund Laboratory, died on June 18, 2011. Read More… |
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William H. Prusoff, Ph.D.
(6/25/1920 – 4/3/2011)
Emeritus Member since 1957
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Dr. Prusoff, a member of the AACR since 1957 and a faculty member at Yale School of Medicine for nearly six decades, died on April 3, 2011. He was 90-years-old. Read More… |
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Arthur Schatzkin, Dr.P.H., M.D.
(2/11/1948 – 1/20/2011)
Active Member since 1988
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Dr. Schatzkin died of brain cancer on January 20, 2011. He received his bachelor’s degree from Yale University in 1969, his medical degree from the State University of New York Downstate College of Medicine in 1976. Read More… |
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Hartmann F. Stähelin, M.D.
(10/20/1925 – 7/5/2011)
Emeritus Member since 1969
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Dr. Stähelin died on July 7, 2011, he was 85 years old. The son of two medical doctors, Dr. Stähelin was born on October 20, 1925 in Switzerland. Read More… |
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Robert E. Stowell, M.D., Ph.D.
(12/25/1914 – 11/20/2011)
Emeritus Member since 1942
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Robert E. Stowell, M.D., Ph.D., died at his home in Macero, Calif. on November 20, 2011 at the age of 96. Stowell was the founding chair of the department of pathology at the University of California, Davis School of Medicine. Read More…
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Minoru Toyota, M.D., Ph.D.
(4/5/1963 – 6/17/2011)
Active Member since 1997
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Dr. Toyota, a professor in the department of biochemistry at Sapporo Medical University in Japan, passed away on June 17, 2011. He was just 48 years old. Read More… |
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Alvin L. Watne, M.D.
(1/13/1927 – 7/31/2011)
Active Member since 1959
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Dr. Watne died on July 31, 2011. He was the medical director for the Cancer Center of Georgia at Georgia Baptist Medical Center. Read More… |
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George Weber, M.D.
(3/29/1922 – 6/13/2011)
Active Member since 1997
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Dr. Weber, died on June 13, 2011 at the age of 89. An AACR member for 55 years, he was distinguished professor emeritus of pharmacology and toxicology and of experimental oncology in the School of Medicine at Indiana University. Read More… |
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