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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.

2024-2025 AACR Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cancer Research Committee

Chair
Kornelia Polyak, MD, PhD, FAACR 

Members
Rima S. Al-Awar, PhD
Mitchel S. Berger, MDJ. Jack Lee, PhD
Nancy E. Davidson, MD, FAACR
Thanos D. Halazonetis, DDS, PhD
Roy S. Herbst, MD, PhD
Christopher I. Li, MD, PhD
Judy Lieberman, MD, PhD, FAACR
Luis F. Parada, PhD, FAACR
Melissa A. Simon, MD, MPH
Sheila A. Stewart, DPhil
Josep Tabernero, MD
Kenneth Kenji Tanabe, MD

2024-2025 AACR Award for Outstanding Achievement in Blood Cancer Research Committee

Chair
Ravindra Majeti, MD, PhD

Members
Stephen M. Ansell, MD, PhD 
Ami S. Bhatt, MD 
Jorge E. Cortes, MD 
Guido Kroemer, MD, PhD 
A. Thomas Look, MD 
Joseph Mikhael, MD 
Valentina Nardi, MD 
A. Keith Stewart, MBChB, MBA 
Jeffrey W. Tyner, PhD 
Julie M. Vose, MD, MBA 

2024-2025 AACR Award for Outstanding Achievement in Chemistry in Cancer Research Committee

Chair
Danette L. Daniels, PhD

Members
Liron Bar-Peled, PhD 
Dale L. Boger, PhD 
Yael David, PhD 
Danica Galonić Fujimori, PhD 
Renata Jaskula-Sztul, PhD 
Laura L. Kiessling, PhD
Sanjay V. Malhotra, PhD 
Michael Rapé, PhD 
André Richters, PhD 
Mary Lynn Trawick, PhD 

2024-2025 AACR Daniel D. Von Hoff Award for Outstanding Contributions to Education and Training in Cancer Research Committee

Chair
Ramesh K. Ramanathan, MD 

Members
Erkut H. Borazanci, MD 
Elena Gabriela Chiorean, MD 
Haiyong Han, PhD 
Nadia Harbeck, MD, PhD 
Wendy B. London, PhD 
Allyson J. Ocean, MD 
Philip A. Philip, MD, PhD 
Ashok K. Saluja, PhD 
Paul A. Scheet, PhD 
Rachna T. Shroff, MD 
Margaret A. Tempero, MD 
Andrea Wang-Gillam, MD, PhD 

2024-2025 AACR Distinguished Lectureship in Breast Cancer Research Committee 

Chair
Luisa Iruela-Arispe, PhD 

Members
Benjamin O. Anderson, MD 
Mariana Chavez MacGregor, MD, MSC 
Camila O. dos Santos, PhD 
Matthew P. Goetz, MD 
Ariella B. Hanker, PhD 
Dezheng Huo, PhD 
E. Shelley Hwang, MD, MPH 
Kate I. Lathrop, MD 
Maryam B. Lustberg, MD 
Erica L. Mayer, MD, MPH 
Pedram Razavi, MD, PhD 
Carlos L. Arteaga, MD, FAACR (ex officio) 

2024-2025 AACR Distinguished Lectureship on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities Committee 

Chair
Claradina Soto, PhD 

Members
M. Paula Aristizabal, MD 
Kevin D. Cassel, DrPH 
Vida Henderson, PhD, MPH, PharmD 
Chanita Hughes-Halbert, PhD 
Jason A. Mendoza, MD, MPH 
Samilia Obeng-Gyasi, MD, MPH 
Diana Redwood, PhD, MPH 
Sonya Reid, MD, MPH 
Susan T. Vadaparampil, PhD, MPH 

2024-2025 AACR James S. Ewing-Thelma B. Dunn Award for Outstanding Achievement in Pathology in Cancer Research Committee

Chair
Kurt A. Schalper, MD, PhD 

Members
Jessica L. Davis, MD 
Jiaoti Huang, MD, PhD 
Paul H. Huang, PhD 
Teresa Hyun, MD, PhD 
Selene C. Koo, MD, PhD 
Tamara Levin Lotan, MD 
Torsten O. Nielsen, MD, PhD 
Eli Pikarsky, MD, PhD 
Sabina Signoretti, MD 
Laura H. Tang, MD, PhD 
Michael A. Teitell, MD, PhD 
Lawrence D. True, MD 

2024-2025 AACR Laboratory Research Awards Committee

Chair
J. Alan Diehl, PhD 

Members
Iannis Aifantis, PhD 
Chiara Ambrogio, PhD 
Bradley E. Bernstein, MD, PhD 
Adrienne A. Boire, MD, PhD 
Manel Esteller, MD, PhD 
Hector L. Franco, PhD 
Kay F. Macleod, PhD 
Jeremy N. Rich, MD, MHS, MBA 
Kala Visvanathan, MD 
Shizhen Emily Wang, PhD 
Johnathan R. Whetstine, PhD 
Jelani C. Zarif, PhD 

2024-2025 AACR Outstanding Investigator Award for Breast Cancer Research Committee

Chair
Sofia D. Merajver, MD, PhD 

Members
Julio A. Aguirre-Ghiso, PhD 
James V. Alvarez, PhD 
Samuel Aparicio, BMBch, PhD 
Eric C. Chang, PhD 
Richard S. Finn, MD 
Dawn L. Hershman, MD 
Joanne Kotsopoulos, PhD 
Meena S. Moran, MD 
Eileen E. Parkes, PhD 
Faye A. Rogers, PhD 
Jeffrey M. Rosen, PhD 
Priyanka Sharma, MD
Carlos L. Arteaga, MD, FAACR (ex officio) 

2024-2025 AACR Team Science Award Committee

Chair
Michael B. Yaffe, MD, PhD 

Members
Bojana I. Askovich, PhD 
Yin Cao, ScD, MPH 
Aadel A. Chaudhuri, MD, PhD 
Adrian L. Gill, PhD 
Raju Kucherlapati, PhD 
Ana María López, MD, MPH 
Chrystal M. Paulos, PhD 
Matthew B. Schabath, PhD 
Melody Smith, MD, MS 
Amina Zoubeidi, PhD 

2024-2025 AACR-American Cancer Society Award for Research Excellence in Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Committee

Chair
Lee W. Jones, PhD 

Members
Roshan Bastani, PhD 
Zobeida Cruz-Monserrate, PhD 
Christina M. Dieli-Conwright, PhD, MPH 
Samir M. Hanash, MD, PhD 
Mark A. LaBarge, PhD 
Lingeng Lu, MD, PhD 
Tuya Pal, MD 
Sharon A. Savage, MD 
Rulla M. Tamimi, ScD 
Carmina G. Valle, PhD, MPH 
Trang VoPham, PhD, MPH, MS 
Lin Yang, PhD 

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

Chair
Ignacio Melero, MD, PhD 

Members
Ido Amit, PhD 
Lisa H. Butterfield, PhD 
Yvonne Y. Chen, PhD 
Glenn Dranoff, MD 
Elizabeth M. Jaffee, MD, FAACR 
Nikhil S. Joshi, PhD 
Lewis L. Lanier, PhD 
Lili Yang, PhD 

2024-2025 AACR-Joseph H. Burchenal Award for Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Cancer Research Committee

Chair
Frederick R. Appelbaum, MD, FAACR 

Members
Michael Cecchini, MD 
Ignacio Garrido-Laguna, MD, PhD, MBA 
Petros Grivas, MD, PhD 
David S. Hong, MD 
Isaac Y. Kim, MD, PhD, MBA 
Theresa Kolben, MD, PhD 
Zeshaan A. Rasheed, MD, PhD  
April A. N. Rose, MD, PhD, FRCPC 
Alison Schram, MD 
Erica Stringer-Reasor, MD 
Puja Sapra, PhD 
Hank Schmidt, MD, PhD 

2024-2025 AACR-Minorities in Cancer Research Jane Cooke Wright Memorial Lectureship Committee

Chair
José G. Treviño, II., MD 

Members
Maria G. Castro, PhD 
Bernard Kwabi-Addo, PhD
Janielle P. Maynard, PhD
Felicite Noubissi-Kamdem, PhD
Ramon E. Parsons, MD, PhD 
Steven T. Rosen, MD 
Brian Ruffell, PhD 
Marcia Tan, PhD 
Naoto T. Ueno, MD, PhD 
Eduardo Vilar-Sanchez, MD, PhD 
Charnita M. Zeigler-Johnson, PhD 

2024-2025 AACR-Princess Takamatsu Memorial Lectureship Committee

Chair
Tyler Jacks, PhD, FAACR 

Members
Paolo Boffetta, MD, MPH
Fatima Cardoso, MD 
Nadia Harbeck, MD, PhD 
Masanori Hatakeyama, MD 
Shivaani Kummar, MD 
Hiroyuki Mano, MD, PhD 
Matthew L. Meyerson, MD, PhD, FAACR 
Masanobu Oshima, DVM, PhD 
Hideyuki Saya, MD, PhD 
Deborah Schrag, MD, MPH 
Yoshinori Murakami, MD, PhD (ex officio) 

2024-2025 AACR-St. Baldrick’s Foundation award for Outstanding Achievement in Pediatric Cancer Research Committee

Chair
Jason T. Yustein, MD 

Members
James F. Amatruda, MD, PhD 
Jacqueline S. Casillas, MD 
Lisa R. Diller, MD
Maryam Fouladi, MD 
A. Lindsay Frazier, MD 
Julia L. Glade-Bender, MD 
Michael D. Hogarty, MD 
Heinrich Kovar, PhD 
Stefan M. Pfister, MD 
Lillian Sung, MD, PhD 
Gilles Vassal, MD, PhD 
Anita Villani, MD, MSc 
Leo D. Wang, MD, PhD 
Alan S. Wayne, MD 

2024-2025 AACR-Waun Ki Hong Award for Outstanding Achievement in Translational and Clinical Cancer Research Committee

Chair
Raymond N. DuBois, MD, PhD, FAACR 

Members
Gautam Borthakur, MD 
Stephen Lam, MD 
Natasha B Leighl, BSc, MMSc, MD 
Nancy U. Lin, MD 
Jennifer L. McQuade, MD 
Solange Peters, MD, PhD 
Rafael Santana-Davila, MD 
Matthew B. Schabath, PhD 
Vivek Subbiah, MD 
Cristian Tomasetti, PhD 

2024-2025 AACR-Women in Cancer Research Charlotte Friend Lectureship Committee

Chair
Jill P. Mesirov, PhD 

Members
Bettina F. Drake, PhD 
Claudia Fischbach, PhD 
Marina Chiara Garassino, MD 
Ernest T. Hawk, PhD, MPH 
Patricia Nez Henderson, MD, MPH 
Sophia C. Kamran, MD 
Dineo Khabele, MD 
Christopher S. Lathan, MD, MS, MPH 
Elisa M. Rodriguez, PhD 
Priscilla R. Sanderson, PhD, CRC 

2024-2025 Pezcoller Foundation-AACR International Award for Extraordinary Achievement in Cancer Research Committee

Chair
Giulio F. Draetta, MD, PhD 

Members
Dario C. Altieri, MD, PhD 
John M. Carethers, MD, FAACR 
Guido Kroemer, MD, PhD 
Elaine R. Mardis, PhD, FAACR 
Luigi Naldini, MD, PhD 
Katerina A. Politi, PhD 
Nicola Segata, PhD 
Mehmet Toner, PhD 
Samra Turajlic, MD, PhD 
Nicholas C. Turner, MD, PhD 

2024-2025 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 
Humberto M. Guiot, MD 
Wenora Y. Johnson, BS 
Amy E. Leader, DrPH, MPH 
Ghecemy Lopez, MEd, PhD 
Donna M. Ludwinski, BS 
Laurie McGinley, BS 
Katrece Nolen, MBA, BS 
Eileen M. O’Reilly, MD 
Analiz Rodriguez, MD, PhD, MBA 
Cynthia Ryan, PhD 
Nicholas St. Fleur 
Colonel Gary Steele, BS, MS 
Mary Beth Terry, PhD 
Kasisomayajula Viswanath, PhD  
Alexandra Vitale, BS