In Memoriam

Nathan A. Berger, MD, founding director of what is now the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) in Cleveland, Ohio, and a member of the AACR since 1978, died June 14, 2024. He was 83.

Judith Campisi, PhD, an expert on the link between aging and cancer through cellular senescence at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging and a Fellow of the AACR Academy, died January 19, 2024, after a long illness.

Lynette Ann Denny, MD, PhD, an AACR member, former head of department of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa, and a leading researcher in the prevention of cervical cancer in low-resource settings, died June 9, 2024. She was 66.

Connie J. Eaves, PhD, OC, a Canadian biologist whose work on hematopoiesis and stem cells provided insights into the biology of leukemia and breast cancer, died March 7, 2024, at the age of 79.  She was a Fellow of the AACR Academy.

Ivy B. Elkins of Evanston, Illinois, an advocate for lung cancer research and for patients with the disease and a member of the AACR, died June 23, 2024.  She was 57.

V. Craig Jordan, PhD, DSc, FAACR, a pharmacologist and a pioneer of hormone therapy for the treatment of breast cancer, died June 9, 2024, at the age of 76.

Edith P. Mitchell, MD, an oncologist, the enterprise vice president for cancer disparities at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center (SKCC) in Philadelphia, and a retired brigadier general in the U.S. Air Force, died recently at the age of 76.

Lee Roy Morgan, Jr., MD, PhD, a retired clinical pharmacologist and oncologist and an AACR member for 58 years, died October 22, 2023. He was 86 years old.

Maxine Frank Singer, PhD, FAACR, former president of the Carnegie Institution of Science and former chief of the Laboratory of Biochemistry at the National Cancer Institute, died July 9, 2024. She was 93.