When Matthew Vander Heiden was working on his MD/PhD, trying to understand how apoptotic cell death is regulated by bcl-2 proteins located at the mitochondrial outer membrane, it occurred to him he would have to go back to basics.
Growing up in Australia, Charles Mullighan knew he wanted to be a doctor but never thought about working in Memphis, Tennessee. But that is exactly where he ended up, at a hospital named for the patron saint of impossible causes.
With a little help from the AACR, a fascination with cancer-associated viruses has turned into a successful career in research for Blossom Damania, PhD, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – a career that has gone global with research projects on four continents.
Kimberly Kelly, PhD, the CEO of a biotech startup called ZielBio, received an AACR-PanCAN Career Development Award for Pancreatic Cancer Research as one of the first grants of her independent academic career. The value of the grant, she says, is more than the money.
The AACR NextGen Grants for Transformative Cancer Research represent the AACR’s flagship funding initiative to stimulate highly innovative research from young investigators. 2017 NextGen grantee, Hani Goodarzi, PhD, shares the impact of this grant on his career and on metastasis research, especially in colorectal cancer.
When Edna Cukierman, PhD, obtained an independent research position and decided to apply for a cancer research grant, she had one problem: “I didn’t know anything about cancer,” she recalls.
The AACR-Novocure Tumor Treating Fields Research Grants represent a joint effort to promote and support innovative research focused on Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields), which are intermediate frequency, low intensity, alternating electric fields that disrupt cell division in cancer cells. 2020 grant recipient Carsten Hagemann, PhD, shares his perspectives on the myriad benefits of the grant.
After undergraduate education at Harvard University, Ravi Majeti earned his MD and PhD at University of California San Francisco. He took an interest in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in medical school and cared for patients with AML during his residency in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and Hematology fellowship at Stanford University...
Dr. Channing Der serves as the Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Pharmacology at the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Having received his PhD from the University of California at Irvine, Dr. Der went on to complete his postdoctoral research training at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School. As a two-time PanCAN-AACR grant recipient...
For Michael Jensen, MD, a grant from the AACR came at a good time. It was 1996, and Jensen was at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle for his fellowship as a pediatric oncologist-hematologist, working in the laboratory of....