AACR Congratulates Members Elected to the National Academy of Medicine
PHILADELPHIA – The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) extends its sincerest congratulations to the 18 AACR members who have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), one of the nation’s highest honors in the fields of health and medicine.
The 2026 NAM class, announced earlier this week, includes eight Fellows of the AACR Academy:
- Cory Abate-Shen, PhD, FAACR, Columbia University
- Frédéric J. de Sauvage, PhD, FAACR, Genentech
- Anthony Letai, MD, PhD, FAACR, National Cancer Institute
- Ross L. Levine, MD, FAACR, member of the AACR Board of Directors; Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- Dana Pe’er, PhD, FAACR, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- Charles W.M. Roberts, MD, PhD, FAACR, member of the AACR board of directors; St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
- Dennis J. Slamon, MD, PhD, FAACR, University of California, Los Angeles
- Kimberly Stegmaier, MD, FAACR, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston Children’s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School
This year’s NAM class also includes the following esteemed AACR members:
- Kathleen H. Burns, MD, PhD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School
- Roy S. Herbst, MD, PhD, Dartmouth Cancer Center
- Jacqueline S. Jeruss, MD, PhD, University of Michigan
- Susan M. Kaech, PhD, Allen Institute
- Albert C. Koong, MD, PhD, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
- Katy Rezvani, MD, PhD, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
- Ali Shilatifard, PhD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
- Elizabeth M. Swisher, MD, Fred Hutch/UW/Seattle Children’s Cancer Consortium and University of Washington
- Kasisomayajula “Vish” Viswanath, PhD, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
- Michael B. Yaffe, MD, PhD, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology