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Cancer researchers, physician-scientists, and others are driving progress against cancer with discoveries that are advancing prevention and transforming care.

Targeting Tumors’ Blood Supply

Targeting Tumors’ Blood Supply

Cancer researcher Renata Pasqualini, PhD, takes aim at cancer with novel approaches to developing targeted diagnostic, imaging, and therapeutic strategies.

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Surviving Childhood Cancer and Working Toward Cures

Surviving Childhood Cancer and Working Toward Cures

Diagnosed with childhood Hodgkin lymphoma, Diana M. Merino, PhD, is researching ways to harness this genetic information in order to personalize patient care.

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Innovating New Approaches to Cancer Prevention

Innovating New Approaches to Cancer Prevention

A Landon Foundation-AACR INNOVATOR grantee is researching new ways to circumvent the development of stomach cancer.

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Bolstering Basic Cancer Research to Find Cures

Bolstering Basic Cancer Research to Find Cures

Armed with a one-year fellowship from the AACR, a young researcher has been taking a new approach to understanding more about how damage to a 'tumor suppressor' protein can influence cancer development.

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Improving Cancer Outcomes for Patients of All Races and Ethnicities

Improving Cancer Outcomes for Patients of All Races and Ethnicities

Dr. Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, a physician-scientist at the University of Chicago, is working to reveal the potential of genomics to eliminate disparities in cancer outcomes.

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Advancing Personalized Cancer Medicine

Advancing Personalized Cancer Medicine

Dr. Nikhil Wagle, an early-career physician-scientist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, is working to translate the revolution in cancer genomics into advances in personalized cancer medicine in the clinic.

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Teaming Up to End Childhood Cancer

Teaming Up to End Childhood Cancer

Dr. John M. Maris of The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, leads national efforts to translate basic discoveries into treatments for children with cancer.

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Tapping Technology to Improve Cancer Prevention

Tapping Technology to Improve Cancer Prevention

Supported by an AACR grant Award, cancer researcher uses bioinformatics to explore paths to cancer prevention.

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