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Scientific Achievement Awards Committees

Scientific Achievement Awards Committees serve in the significant role of selecting recipients of the prizes, awards, and lectureships that are listed for each committee.

2023-2024 AACR Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cancer Research Committee

Chair
Robert H. Vonderheide, MD, PhD

Members
Rima S. Al-Awar, PhD
Thanos D. Halazonetis, DDS, PhD
J. Jack Lee, PhD
Steven K. Libutti, MD
Judy Lieberman, MD, PhD, FAACR
Luis F. Parada, PhD, FAACR
Jennifer A. Pietenpol, PhD, FAACR
Ching-Hon Pui, MD
Michael M. Shen, PhD
Melissa A. Simon, MD
Josep Tabernero, MD
Kenneth Kenji Tanabe, MD

2023-2024 AACR Award for Outstanding Achievement in Blood Cancer Research Committee

Chair
Faith E. Davies, MD

Members
Stephen M. Ansell, MD, PhD
Ami S. Bhatt, MD
Rachel J. Cook, MS, MD
Guido Kroemer, MD, PhD
A. Thomas Look, MD
Valentina Nardi, MD
Teresa M. Palomero Vazquez, PhD
Katayoun Rezvani, MD, PhD
Christian Steidl, MD
Jeffrey W. Tyner, PhD
Julie M. Vose, MD, MBA

2023-2024 AACR Award for Outstanding Achievement in Chemistry in Cancer Research Committee

Chair
Daniel Nomura, PhD

Members
Liron Bar-Peled, PhD
Dale L. Boger, PhD
Danette L. Daniels, PhD
Yael David, PhD
Katrina L. Jackson, PhD
Renata Jaskula-Sztul, PhD
John A. Katzenellenbogen, PhD
Sanjay V. Malhotra, PhD
Zaneta Nikolovska-Coleska, PhD
Michael Rapé, PhD
Stefani Thomas, PhD
Mary Lynn Trawick, PhD
Xiangshu Xiao, PhD

2023-2024 AACR Daniel D. Von Hoff Award for Outstanding Contributions to Education and Training in Cancer Research Committee

Chair
Manuel Hidalgo, MD, PhD

Members
Erkut H. Borazanci, MD
Sara A. Byron, PhD
Elena Gabriela Chiorean, MD
Nadia Harbeck, MD, PhD
Susan G. Hilsenbeck, PhD
Suwon Kim, PhD
Ming Lei, PhD
Wendy B. London, PhD
Vicki A. Morrison, MD
Ashok K. Saluja, PhD
Paul A. Scheet, PhD
Patrick Schöffski, MPH
George W. Sledge, Jr., MD

2023-2024 AACR Distinguished Lectureship in Breast Cancer Research Committee 

Chair
Nicholas C. Turner, MD, PhD

Members
Benjamin O. Anderson, MD
Banu Arun, MD
Dezheng Huo, PhD
E. Shelley Hwang, MD, MPH
Luisa Iruela-Arispe, PhD
Kevin M. Kalinsky, MD, MS
Kate I. Lathrop, MD
Andrea S. Llera, PhD
Sibylle Loibl, MD, PhD
Erica L. Mayer, MD, MPH
Jorge S. Reis-Filho, MD, PhD
Rebecca A. Shatsky, MD
Joanne B. Weidhaas,
MD, PhD, MSM
Dihua Yu, PhD
Carlos L. Arteaga, MD, FAACR (ex officio)

2023-2024 AACR Distinguished Lectureship on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities Committee 

Chair
Scarlett L. Gomez, PhD, MPH

Members
Kevin D. Cassel, DrPH
Eloise Chapman-Davis, MD
Jorge E. Cortes, MD
Vida Henderson,
PhD, MPH, PharmD
Franklin W. Huang, MD, PhD
Chanita Hughes-Halbert, PhD
Jason A. Mendoza, MD, MPH
Sonya Reid, MD, MPH
Claradina Soto, PhD
Joseph A. Sparano, MD

2023-2024 AACR James S. Ewing-Thelma B. Dunn Award for Outstanding Achievement in Pathology in Cancer Research Committee

Chair
Michael M Ittmann, MD, PhD

Members
Jayanta Debnath, MD
Jennifer Dunlap, MD
Jiaoti Huang, MD, PhD
Teresa Hyun, MD, PhD
Selene C. Koo, MD, PhD
Torsten O. Nielsen, MD, PhD
Anil Vasdev Parwani, MD, PhD
Eli Pikarsky, MD, PhD
Laura H. Tang, MD, PhD
Michael A. Teitell, MD, PhD
Lawrence D. True, MD
Jelle Wesseling, MD, PhD

2023-2024 AACR Laboratory Research Awards Committee

Chair
Jonathan Chernoff, MD, PhD

Members
Adrienne A. Boire, MD, PhD
Donita C. Brady, PhD
J. Alan Diehl, PhD
Olivier Elemento, PhD
Hector L. Franco, PhD
Mathew Garnett, PhD
Catherine Handy Marshall, MD, MPH
Jeffrey M. Lipton, MD, PhD
Sandra S. McAllister, PhD
Jason A. Somarelli, PhD
Kala Visvanathan, MD
Shizhen Emily Wang, PhD

2023-2024 AACR Margaret Foti Award for Leadership and Extraordinary Achievements in Cancer Research Committee

Chair
Michael A. Caligiuri, MD, FAACR

Members
John M. Carethers, MD
Bruce A. Chabner, MD, FAACR
Susan M. Galbraith, PhD, MBBCh
Christine A. Iacobuzio-Donahue, MD, PhD
Ruben A. Mesa, MD
Edith P. Mitchell, MD
William Pao, MD, PhD
Anil K. Rustgi, MD
Yu Shyr, PhD, FAACR
Kimberly Stegmaier, MD
Cheryl L. Willman, MD

2023-2024 AACR Outstanding Investigator Award for Breast Cancer Research Committee

Chair
Hope S. Rugo, MD

Members
James V. Alvarez, PhD
Julie Dutil, PhD
Richard S. Finn, MD
Veronica C. Jones, MD
Arpana M. Naik, MD
Eileen E. Parkes, PhD
Jeffrey M. Rosen, PhD
Priyanka Sharma, MD
Melinda L. Telli, MD
Carlos L. Arteaga, MD, FAACR (ex officio)

2023-2024 AACR Team Science Award Committee

Chair
Felix Y. Feng, MD

Members
Aadel A. Chaudhuri, MD, PhD
Lara E. Davis, MD
Adrian L. Gill, PhD
Erin N. Kobetz, PhD, MPH
Ana María López, MD, MPH
Chrystal M. Paulos, PhD
Yanique Rattigan-Brown, PhD, MBA
Olivia W. Rossanese, PhD
Matthew B. Schabath, PhD
Bryan P. Schneider, MD
Melody Smith, MD, MS

2023-2024 AACR-American Cancer Society Award for Research Excellence in Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Committee

Chair
B. Lee Green, PhD

Members
Roshan Bastani, PhD
Roger Chou, MD
Zobeida Cruz-Monserrate, PhD
Andrea De Censi, MD
Lee W. Jones, PhD
Mark A. LaBarge, PhD
Adana A.M. Llanos, PhD, MPH
Lingeng Lu, MD, PhD
Adam B. Murphy, MD, MBA, MSCI
Jesse Nodora, DrPH, MPH
Megan Othus, PhD
Sandi L. Pruitt, PhD
Carmina G. Valle, PhD
Trang VoPham, PhD, MPH, MS

2023-2024 AACR-Cancer Research Institute Lloyd J. Old Award in Cancer Immunology Committee

Chair
Ton Schumacher, PhD, FAACR

Members
Lawrence H. Fong, MD
Thomas F. Gajewski, MD, PhD
W. Nicholas Haining, BMBCh
Ignacio Melero, MD, PhD
Andrea Schietinger, PhD
Jennifer A. Wargo, MD
E. John Wherry III, PhD
Cassian Yee, MD

2023-2024 AACR-Joseph H. Burchenal Award for Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Cancer Research Committee

Chair
Suzanne L. Topalian, MD, FAACR

Members
Frederick R. Appelbaum, MD, FAACR
Nadine J Barrett, PhD
Emily K. Bergsland, MD
Lara E. Davis, MD
Cathy Eng, MD
Daniel A. Heller, PhD
Yelena Y. Janjigian, MD
Pamela Kunz, MD
Gilberto De Lima Lopes, MD
Christopher Nasveschuk, PhD
April A. N. Rose, MD, PhD, FRCPC
Erica Stringer-Reasor, MD
Puja Sapra, PhD
Hank Schmidt, MD, PhD

2023-2024 AACR-Minorities in Cancer Research Jane Cooke Wright Memorial Lectureship Committee

Chair
Valerie Odero-Marah, PhD

Members
Maria G. Castro, PhD
Graham A. Colditz, MD
Marvella Elizabeth Ford, PhD
Sophia H.L. George, PhD
Scarlett L. Gomez, PhD, MPH
Ramon E. Parsons, MD, PhD
Sorbarikor Piawah, MD, MPH
Brian Ruffell, PhD
José G. Treviño, II., MD
Naoto T. Ueno, MD, PhD
Eduardo Vilar-Sanchez, MD, PhD

2023-2024 AACR-Princess Takamatsu Memorial Lectureship Committee

Chair
Louis M. Staudt, MD, PhD, FAACR

Members
Philippe L. Bedard, MD
Paolo Boffetta, MD, MPH
Mikala Egeblad, PhD
Tyler Jacks, PhD, FAACR
Hiroyuki Mano, MD, PhD
Matthew L. Meyerson, MD, PhD
Phuong Khanh Morrow, MD
Shigekazu Nagata, PhD, FAACR
Deborah Schrag, MD, MPH
Rosalie Sears, PhD
Anna M. Wu, PhD
Yoshinori Murakami, MD, PhD (ex officio)

2023-2024 AACR-St. Baldrick’s Foundation award for Outstanding Achievement in Pediatric Cancer Research Committee

Chair
Elizabeth R. Lawlor, MD, PhD

Members
Peter C. Adamson, MD
Ralph J. DeBerardinis, MD, PhD
Lisa R. Diller, MD
Tanja A. Gruber, MD, PhD
Stefan M. Pfister, MD
Linda M. S. Resar, MD
Corinne Summers, MD
Anita Villani, MD, MSc
Leo D. Wang, MD, PhD
Brigitte C. Widemann, MD

2023-2024 AACR-Waun Ki Hong Award for Outstanding Achievement in Translational and Clinical Cancer Research Committee

Chair
Andrew P. Futreal, PhD, FAACR

Members
James L. Abbruzzese, MD
Fadlo R. Khuri, MD
Stephen Lam, MD
Natasha B Leighl, BSc, MMSc, MD
Christopher I. Li, MD, PhD
Nancy U. Lin, MD
Jennifer L. McQuade, MD
Solange Peters, MD, PhD
Rafael Santana-Davila, MD
Jean-Charles Soria, MD, PhD
Vivek Subbiah, MD
Jianda Yuan, MD, PhD
Laurence Zitvogel, MD, PhD

2023-2024 AACR-Women in Cancer Research Charlotte Friend Lectureship Committee

Chair
Carmen E. Guerra, MD

Members
Carolyn Y. Fang, PhD
Claudia Fischbach, PhD
Karuna Ganesh, MD, PhD
Marina Chiara Garassino, MD
Dorothy K. Hatsukami, PhD
Sophia C. Kamran, MD
Dineo Khabele, MD
Christopher S. Lathan, MD, MS, MPH
Beverly D. Lyn-Cook, PhD
Anirban Maitra, MBBS
Jill P. Mesirov, PhD

2023-2024 Pezcoller Foundation-AACR International Award for Extraordinary Achievement in Cancer Research Committee

Chair
Robert D. Schreiber, PhD, FAACR

Members
Mary C. Beckerle, PhD, FAACR
Jos Jonkers, PhD
Franziska Michor, PhD
Gioacchino Natoli, MD
Yardena Samuels, PhD
Charles L. Sawyers, MD, FAACR
Giorgio Scita, PhD
Giulio Superti-Furga, PhD
Marcel R.M. van den Brink, MD, PhD
Owen N. Witte, MD, FAACR

2023-2024 AACR June L. Biedler Prize for Cancer Journalism Judging Panel

Chair
Clifton Leaf, MS

Vice Chair
Ron Winslow, BA

Members
Jose Javier Bravo-Cordero, PhD
Lecia Bushak, BFA
Maria G. Castro, PhD
Ellen L. Goode, MPH, PhD
Adam Hayden, MA
Wenora Y. Johnson, BS
Amy E. Leader, DrPH, MPH
Donna M. Ludwinski, BS
Marlena Murphy, MA, APC, NCC
Cynthia Ryan, PhD
Mariana Carla Stern, PhD
Kari L. Whitehead, MS, RD