As breast cancer awareness month approaches, we spotlight the work of Adwoa Bemah Boamah Mensah, PhD, a 2022 recipient of the Beginning Investigator Grant for Catalytic Research (BIG Cat). Dr. Mensah is developing Mbreastcheck, a culturally tailored mobile health app designed to promote early detection and improve cancer care uptake among women in Ghana.
A serendipitous observation made possible at least in part by an AACR-PanCAN grant helped lead the way of two-time AACR grant recipient Florencia McAllister, MD. Her journey continues to uncover how microbes play a key role in carcinogenesis and the effectiveness of cancer therapies.
2023 AACR-St. Baldrick's Foundation Pediatric Cancer Research Grant recipient, Alanna Church, MD, shared how being an AACR grantee has advanced her work in improving molecular tumor profiling in the diagnosis and treatment of children with cancer.
Having received two AACR research grants at critical points in her career, Eunyoung Choi, PhD, shared the impact of these grants as she progressed through the academic ranks to become an associate professor.
Supported by a 2016 AACR-QuadW Foundation Sarcoma Research Fellowship, Joanna Przybyl, PhD, showed how ctDNA levels correlated with treatment response in leiomyosarcoma, a rare cancer, and uncovered the potential utility of this liquid biopsy approach to other sarcomas.
Costas Lyssiotis, PhD, received the 2013 Pancreatic Cancer Action Network-AACR Pathway to Leadership Grant, 2016 AACR-Bayer Innovation and Discovery Award, and 2017 AACR NextGen Grant for Transformative Cancer Research. Dr. Lyssiotis shares how these three AACR grants helped him and his team discover several mechanisms by which metabolites support tumor growth, immune evasion, and resistance to therapy in pancreatic cancer.
Marco Ruella, MD, received the AACR-Bristol-Myers Squibb Oncology Fellowship in Clinical Cancer Research in 2015. Dr. Ruella shared how an AACR Fellowship helped lay the foundation for dual CAR T-cell therapy.
Raymond E. Moellering, PhD, a recipient of the 2008 AACR Centennial Predoctoral Fellowship in Cancer Research, shared how the grant given to him by the AACR as a doctoral candidate encouraged him to work at the interface of chemistry, biology, and cancer.
Yuanyuan Fu, PhD, discussed the impact of receiving the 2022 AACR-Merck Cancer Disparities Fellowship on her career and research on colorectal cancer disparities in Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders.
W. Kimryn Rathmell, MD, PhD, formerly of Vanderbilt University Medical Center and now director of the National Cancer Institute, shares the impact on her career and her research of two AACR-supported research grants that she received during her academic career.