In Memoriam

Alfred G. Knudson Jr., MD, PhD, Fellow of the AACR Academy, died July 10, 2016, at the age of 93. Knudson was a pioneering cancer researcher who is internationally recognized for his groundbreaking “two-hit” hypothesis, which helped provide the basis for our current understanding of the genetic origins of cancer.

Holbrook Edwin Kidd Kohrt, MD, PhD, assistant professor at Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, California, died February 24, 2016, at the age of 38.

Susan L. Lindquist, PhD, member and former director of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, died October 27, 2016, at the age of 67. Lindquist was an active member of the AACR.

Charles "Randy" Lomax, PhD, of the Melanoma Research Foundation, died on July 28, 2016, at the age of 68. Lomax was an affiliate member of the AACR.

James J. Mezhir, MD, assistant professor of surgery in the Division of Surgical Oncology and Endocrine Surgery at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, died February 3, 2016, at the age of 42.

Enrico Mihich, MD, presidential scholar and special assistant to the president for sponsored research at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts, died December 29, 2016, at the age of 88.

D. James Morré, PhD, professor emeritus in the Department of Chemistry at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, died June 16, 2016, at the age of 81.

Peter C. Nowell, MD, Fellow of the AACR Academy, died December 26, 2016, at the age of 88. Nowell, the Gaylord P. and Mary Louise Harnwell Professor Emeritus in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, was renowned for his codiscovery of the Philadelphia chromosome, which, for the first time, provided evidence of a genetic basis for cancer.

Patrick M. O’Connor, PhD, AACR member since 1989, died July 4, 2016, at the age of 55. O’Connor had most recently served as chief scientific officer and senior vice president, head of research at Ignyta Inc. in San Diego.

Chung S. Park, PhD, professor in the Department of Animal Sciences at North Dakota State University (NDSU) in Fargo, died January 18, 2016, at the age of 74.