Pioneering chemist and Fellow of the AACR Academy Carolyn R. Bertozzi, PhD, leads efforts to develop cancer therapeutics against “a different type of drug target.” A well-manicured garden turning into an overgrown jungle. That’s...
An AACR grantee uses chemistry to build “molecules that can go after undruggable protein targets” to treat cancers. Cancers are often driven by proteins created by specific “oncogenes.” These proteins, when mutated, hijack the...
After Dr. Stephen Chanock’s brother and best friend, Foster, was diagnosed with a rare type of cancer, he dedicated his life to solving the problems of cancer. For Stephen J. Chanock, MD, FAACR, director...
An innovative self-treatment strategy for cervical precancer could save lives in low- and middle-income countries as well as underserved areas in the United States. Chemtai Mungo, MD, MPH, has had the privilege of practicing...
Small donations to the AACR add up to big support for promising new research on a rare type of cancer that strikes teenagers and young adults. Small-dollar contributions to the American Association for Cancer...
Tumors are “born to be bad” with metastatic potential present from the start, spreading to other organs when the original malignancy is the size of a poppy seed, she says. As a teenager, Christina...
An AACR fellowship helped a young pediatrician become a physician-scientist, using clinical insights to inform the search for new cancer therapeutics in the laboratory. As a pediatric fellow in the mid-1990s, Michael Jensen, MD,...
A career development grant from the AACR helped Luisa Escobar-Hoyos, MSC, PhD, earn two major federal grants to further develop her research.
Dr. Shokat shifted the paradigm of targeted cancer therapy by drugging an “undruggable” protein and paving the way for future advances.
Dr. Patricia LoRusso’s parents Both died of cancer when she was a teenager, inspiring her to become an oncologist and focus on developing new treatments for people with cancer. Patricia LoRusso, DO, deals with...
Brain cancer survivor Lanette Veres started the Gray Matters Foundation, a nonprofit that provides encouragement to brain tumor patients through gift packages and cards. Read Lanette's story and the stories of other cancer survivors.
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Learn about physician-scientists and cancer researchers like Fellow of the AACR Academy Lewis C. Cantley, PhD, who are driving progress against cancer.
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