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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.

2025-2026 AACR Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cancer Research Committee

Chair
David G. Kirsch, MD, PhD

Members
Mitchel S. Berger, MD
John C. Byrd, MD
George A. Calin, MD, PhD
Nancy E. Davidson, MD, FAACR
Roy S. Herbst, MD, PhD
Rama Khokha, PhD
Timothy J. Ley, MD
Christopher I. Li, MD, PhD
Joan Massagué, PhD, FAACR
Tannishtha Reya, PhD
Ben Z. Stanger, MD, PhD
Sheila A. Stewart, DPhil
Anna M. Wu, PhD

2025-2026 AACR Award for Outstanding Achievement in Basic Cancer Research Committee

Chair
Kathleen R. Cho, MD

Members
Leila Akkari, PhD
Direna Alonso-Curbelo, PhD
Antonio T. Baines, PhD
Dipanjan Chowdhury, PhD
Jessica N. Clague DeHart, PhD, MPH
Katleen De Preter, PhD
Dannielle Engle, PhD
Cynthia E. Hawkins, MD, PhD
Laura M. Heiser, PhD
Catriona H.M. Jamieson, MD, PhD
Kristin Knouse, MD, PhD
Ruth Scherz-Shouval, PhD
David S. Yu, MD, PhD

2025-2026 AACR Award for Outstanding Achievement in Blood Cancer Research Committee

Chair
Joseph Mikhael, MD

Members
Iannis Aifantis, PhD
P. Leif Bergsagel, MD
Jennifer R. Brown, MD, PhD
Jorge E. Cortes, MD
Yusri A. Elsayed, MD, MHSc, PhD
Lucy A. Godley, MD, PhD
Courtney L. Jones, PhD
Eugenio Morelli, MD
Bruno Paiva, PhD
Davide Rossi, MD, PhD
Aaron D. Schimmer, MD, PhD
A. Keith Stewart, MBChB, MBA
Sarah K. Tasian, MD

2025-2026 AACR Award for Outstanding Achievement in Chemistry in Cancer Research Committee

Chair
Lori S. Friedman, PhD

Members
Elisabetta Chiarparin, PhD
Raffaele Colombo, PhD
Fleur M. Ferguson, PhD
Laura L. Kiessling, PhD
Christopher Parker, PhD
Zoran Rankovic, PhD
David Richard, PhD
André Richters, PhD
Kathleen Seyb, PhD
David E. Uehling, PhD
Ekaterina V. Vinogradova, PhD

2025-2026 AACR Daniel D. Von Hoff Award for Outstanding Contributions to Education and Training in Cancer Research Committee

Chair
Margaret A. Tempero, MD

Members
Mitesh J. Borad, MD
Haiyong Han, PhD
Hedy L. Kindler, MD
Peter Kraft, PhD
Nicky Lawrence, MBChB, FRACP
Allyson J. Ocean, MD
Philip A. Philip, MD, PhD
Rachna T. Shroff, MD
John H. Strickler, MD
Zev A. Wainberg, MD
Andrea Wang-Gillam, MD, PhD

2025-2026 AACR Distinguished Lectureship in Breast Cancer Research Committee 

Chair
Angela M. DeMichele, MD

Members
Mariana Chavez MacGregor, MD, MSC
Camila O. dos Santos, PhD
Matthew P. Goetz, MD
Tuffia C. Haddad, MD
Ariella B. Hanker, PhD
Benita S. Katzenellenbogen, PhD
Huiping Liu, MD, PhD
Maryam B. Lustberg, MD
Traci R. Lyons, PhD
Kara N. Maxwell, MD, PhD
Pedram Razavi, MD, PhD
Evanthia T. Roussos-Torres, MD, PhD
Gregory A. Vidal, MD, PhD
Stephanie M. Wong, MD, MPH
Carlos L. Arteaga, MD, FAACR (ex officio) 

2025-2026 AACR Distinguished Lectureship on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities Committee 

Chair
Kevin D. Cassel, DrPH

Members
Enmanuel Chavarria, PhD
Chancellor E. Donald, MD
Chyke A. Doubeni, MD, MPH
Deborah Farr, MD
Justine Kahn, MD
Samilia Obeng-Gyasi, MD, MPH
Diana Redwood, PhD, MPH
Michael Roth, MD
Enrique I. Velazquez Villarreal, MD, PhD, MPH

2025-2026 AACR James S. Ewing-Thelma B. Dunn Award for Outstanding Achievement in Pathology in Cancer Research Committee

Chair
Payal Kapur, MD

Members
Michael R. Angelo, MD, PhD
Sarah E. Coupland, MD, PhD
Jessica L. Davis, MD
Jérôme Galon, PhD
Paul H. Huang, PhD
Tamara Levin Lotan, MD
Richard N. Mitchell, MD, PhD
Kikkeri N. Naresh, MBBS, DCP, MD, FRCPath
Melissa Troester, PhD
Gang Wang, MD, PhD
Stephen Yip, MD, PhD

2025-2026 AACR Margaret Foti Award for Leadership and Extraordinary Achievements in Cancer Research Committee

Chair
William Pao, MD, PhD

Members
John M. Carethers, MD, FAACR
Christine A. Iacobuzio-Donahue, MD, PhD
Virginia G. Kaklamani, MD
Natasha Kyprianou, MBBS, PhD
Ming Lei, PhD
Ruben A. Mesa, MD
Yu Shyr, PhD, FAACR
Kimberly Stegmaier, MD
Cheryl L. Willman, MD

2025-2026 AACR Outstanding Investigator Award for Breast Cancer Research Committee

Chair
Joyce A. O’Shaughnessy, MD

Members
Julio A. Aguirre-Ghiso, PhD
Samuel Aparicio, BMBch, PhD
François-Clément Bidard, MD, PhD
Anne H. Blaes, MD
Mark E. Burkard, MD, PhD
Eric C. Chang, PhD
Stephen K.L. Chia, MD, FRCPC
Heide L. Ford, PhD
Stephanie Graff, MD
Dawn L. Hershman, MD
Joanne Kotsopoulos, PhD
Faye A. Rogers, PhD
Jason D. Weber, PhD
Carlos L. Arteaga, MD, FAACR (ex officio) 

2025-2026 AACR Team Science Award Committee

Chair
Amina Zoubeidi, PhD

Members
Bojana I. Askovich, PhD
Yin Cao, ScD, MPH
Tiffany L. Carson, PhD, MPH
Aadel A. Chaudhuri, MD PhD
Ivan Diaz-Padilla, MD, PhD
Satish Gopal, MD, MPH
Allan M. Jordan, PhD
Raju Kucherlapati, PhD
Jyoti Nangalia, MBBChir, PhD
Danielle L. Rodin, MD, MPH
Antoinette R. Tan, MD

2025-2026 AACR-American Cancer Society Award for Research Excellence in Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Committee

Chair
Paul D.P. Pharoah, BMBCh, PhD

Members
Suzette Delaloge, MD
Christina M. Dieli-Conwright, PhD, MPH
Marc J. Gunter, PhD
Samir M. Hanash, MD, PhD
Ernest T. Kaninjing, MBA, MPH, DrPH
Marvin Langston, PhD, MPH
Tsion Z. Minas, PhD
Tuya Pal, MD
Peter Sasieni, PhD
Sharon A. Savage, MD
Rulla M. Tamimi, ScD
Jasmin A. Tiro, PhD
Lin Yang, PhD

2025-2026 AACR-Cancer Research Institute Lloyd J. Old Award in Cancer Immunology Committee

Chair
Alexander Y. Rudensky, PhD, FAACR

Members
Valsamo K. Anagnostou, MD, PhD
John F. DiPersio, MD, PhD
Gianpietro Dotti, MD
Andrea Facciabene, PhD
Katherine A. Fitzgerald, PhD
Dan R. Littman, MD, PhD
Crystal L. Mackall, MD, FAACR
Anna C. Obenauf, PhD

2025-2026 AACR-G.H.A. Clowes Award for Outstanding Basic Cancer Research Committee

Chair
Ralph J. DeBerardinis, MD, PhD

Members
Chiara Ambrogio, PhD
Bradley E. Bernstein, MD, PhD
Navdeep S. Chandel, PhD
Prasenjit Dey, PhD
Manel Esteller, MD, PhD
Kay F. Macleod, PhD
Jeremy N. Rich, MD, MHS, MBA
Davide Ruggero, PhD
Raul A. Urrutia, MD
Johnathan R. Whetstine, PhD
Jennifer S. Yu, MD, PhD
Jelani C. Zarif, PhD

2025-2026 AACR-Joseph H. Burchenal Award for Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Cancer Research Committee

Chair
Stephen J. Forman, MD

Members
Michael Cecchini, MD
Elena Garralda, MD
Ignacio Garrido-Laguna, MD, PhD, MBA
Thomas George, MD
Petros Grivas, MD, PhD
Daniel A. Heller, PhD
David S. Hong, MD
Isaac Y. Kim, MD, PhD, MBA
Theresa Kolben, MD, PhD
Zeshaan A. Rasheed, MD, PhD
Alison Schram, MD
Naoko Takebe, MD, PhD
Jonathan C. Trent, MD, PhD

2025-2026 AACR-Minorities in Cancer Research Jane Cooke Wright Memorial Lectureship Committee

Chair
Camille C.R. Ragin, PhD, MPH

Members
M. Paula Aristizabal, MD
John D. Carpten, PhD, FAACR
Marvella Elizabeth Ford, PhD
Eduardo L. Franco, MPH, DrPH, PhD (Hon)
Rodney C. Haring, PhD, MSW
Bernard Kwabi-Addo, PhD
Janielle P. Maynard, PhD
Felicite Noubissi-Kamdem, PhD
Steven T. Rosen, MD
Brian Ruffell, PhD
Christopher Sistrunk, PhD
Marcia Tan, PhD
Eduardo Vilar-Sanchez, MD, PhD
Charnita M. Zeigler-Johnson, PhD

2025-2026 AACR-Princess Takamatsu Memorial Lectureship Committee

Chair
Lisa M. Coussens, PhD, MD (hc), FAACR, FAIO

Members
Philippe L. Bedard, MD
Fatima Cardoso, MD
Nadia Harbeck, MD, PhD
Masanori Hatakeyama, MD
Peter Kuhn, PhD
Shivaani Kummar, MD
Hiroyoshi Nishikawa, MD, PhD
Masanobu Oshima, DVM, PhD
Hideyuki Saya, MD, PhD
Fuyuhiko Tamanoi, PhD
Toshikazu Ushijima, MD, PhD
Yoshinori Murakami, MD, PhD (ex officio) 

2025-2026 AACR-St. Baldrick’s Foundation award for Outstanding Achievement in Pediatric Cancer Research Committee

Chair
Junne Kamihara, MD, PhD

Members
Sam Behjati, PhD
Catherine M. Bollard, MBChB, MD
Stella Margaret Davies, PhD, MBBS
Peter B. Dirks, MD, PhD
Sadhana Jackson, MD
Emily E. Johnston, MD
Gary M. Kupfer, MD
Fange (Kathy) Liu, PhD
Suzanne P. MacFarland, MD
Hari K. Narayan, MD
Miguel N. Rivera, MD
Tianzhong Yang, PhD

2025-2026 AACR-Waun Ki Hong Award for Outstanding Achievement in Translational and Clinical Cancer Research Committee

Chair
Johann S. de Bono, MD, PhD

Members
Gautam Borthakur, MD
Hyun Cheol Chung, MD
Gabe Kwong, PhD
J. Jack Lee, PhD
Geoffrey Liu, MSc, MD
Jennifer A. Pietenpol, PhD, FAACR
Cristina P. Rodriguez, MD
Matthew B. Schabath, PhD
Nima Sharifi, MD
Dong Moon Shin, MD
Cristian Tomasetti, PhD
Xifeng Wu, MD, PhD

2025-2026 AACR-Women in Cancer Research Charlotte Friend Lectureship Committee

Chair
Dana Pe’er, PhD, FAACR

Members
Hannah Carter, PhD
Bettina F. Drake, PhD
Carolyn Y. Fang, PhD
Karuna Ganesh, MD, PhD
Ernest T. Hawk, PhD, MPH
Shawna V. Hudson, PhD
Anirban Maitra, MBBS
Charles M. Perou, PhD, FAACR
Elisa M. Rodriguez, PhD
Luz Maria Rodriguez, MD
Priscilla R. Sanderson, PhD, CRC
Elizabeth M. Swisher, MD

2025-2026 Pezcoller Foundation-AACR International Award for Extraordinary Achievement in Cancer Research Committee

Chair
Jos Jonkers, PhD

Members
Chiara Ambrogio, PhD
Alan Ashworth, PhD, FRS, FAACR
Benjamin F. Cravatt, PhD
Edna Cukierman, PhD
Gerard I. Evan, PhD, FRS, FmedSci, FAACR
Marco Foiani, PhD
Meredith S. Irwin, MD
Matthias Lütolf, PhD
Jakob Nikolas Kather, MD
E. John Wherry III, PhD, FAACR 

2025-2026 AACR June L. Biedler Prize for Cancer Journalism Judging Panel

Chair
Clifton Leaf, MS 

Vice Chair
Ron Winslow, BA 

Members
Ali Al Ibrahim
Jose Javier Bravo-Cordero, PhD
Lecia Bushak, BFA
Maria G. Castro, PhD
Maggie Fox
Wenora Y. Johnson, BSBM
Amy E. Leader, DrPH, MPH
Ghecemy Lopez, DSW, MAEd
Donna M. Ludwinski, BSChE
Laurie McGinley, BS
Katrece Nolen, MBA, BS
Eileen M. O’Reilly, MD
Analiz Rodriguez, MD, PhD, MBA, FAANS
Cynthia Ryan, PhD
Nicholas St. Fleur
Colonel Gary Steele, BS, MS
Mary Beth Terry, PhD
Kasisomayajula Viswanath, PhD