Award Lectures

SATURDAY, APRIL 18

Twelfth Annual AACR-Women in Cancer Research Charlotte Friend Memorial Lecture

5:15 p.m.-6:30 p.m.

Epigenetic Regulation of Gene Expression, DNA Repair, Aging, and Cancer
Jessica K. Tyler, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO

SUNDAY, APRIL 19

Twelfth Annual Pezcoller Foundation-AACR International Award for Cancer Research

12:15 p.m.-1:15 p.m.

Mechanisms of a tumor angiogenesis alternative to the VEGF pathway
Napoleone Ferrara, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, CA

Fourth Annual AACR-Minorities in Cancer Research Jane Cooke Wright Lecture

4:15 p.m.-5:30 p.m.

Lecturer and title to be announced

Third Annual AACR Award for Outstanding Achievement in Chemistry in Cancer Research Lecture

5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.

Mechanisms of mutations: Interactions of DNA polymerases with carcinogen-damaged DNA
F. Peter Guengerich, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN

MONDAY, APRIL 20

Fifth Annual AACR-Irving Weinstein Foundation Distinguished Lecture

2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.

Lecturer and title to be announced

Eighth Annual Kirk A. Landon-AACR Prize for Basic Cancer Research Lecture

4:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.

Title to be announced
Peter A. Jones, USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, and Stephen B. Baylin, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Eighth Annual Dorothy P. Landon-AACR Prize for Translational Cancer Research Lecture

5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.

Title to be announced
Charles L. Sawyers, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY

TUESDAY, APRIL 21

Forty-ninth Annual AACR G.H.A. Clowes Memorial Award Lecture

8:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m.

Title to be announced
Joan Massagué, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY

Fourteenth Annual AACR Joseph H. Burchenal Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Cancer Research Lecture

9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.

Award winner and title to be announced

Gertrude B. Elion Award Lecture

9:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m.

The role of IRES-dependent translation in cancer
Davide Ruggero, University of California, San Francisco, CA

Thirty-third Annual AACR Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Memorial Award lecture

12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.

Title to be announced
Todd R. Golub, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA

Third Annual AACR Princess Takamatsu Memorial Lecture

1:15 p.m.-2:15 p.m.

Title to be announced
Curtis C. Harris, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD

Eighteenth Annual AACR-American Cancer Society Award Lecture for Research Excellence in Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention

2:15 p.m.-3:15 p.m.

Chemoprevention: Why do we keep getting it wrong?
John D. Potter, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22

Twenty-ninth Annual AACR Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cancer Research Lecture

8:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m.

Integrated genomic analyses of human cancer
Victor E. Velculescu, Johns Hopkins Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baltimore, MD

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