Charles L. Sawyers, MD, chair of the Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program at New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, was inaugurated as president of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) in April at the organization's 104th annual meeting in Washington, DC. He will serve a 1-year term, succeeding Frank McCormick, PhD.
A Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, Sawyers is a member of the National Cancer Advisory Board, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Academy of Sciences. He has received numerous accolades for his research, including the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award.
Harold Moses, MD, received the AACR Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cancer Research, honoring the lasting impact of his research and demonstrated commitment to progress against cancer, at the organization's annual meeting.
The Hortense B. Ingram Professor of Molecular Oncology and director emeritus of the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville, TN, Moses and his team discovered that transforming growth factor-β is an inhibitor of normal cell growth.
Also at the AACR meeting, Robert C. Young, MD, president of RCY Medicine in Philadelphia, PA, received the AACR Margaret Foti Award for Leadership and Extraordinary Achievements in Cancer Research. Young and his team generated the first ovarian cancer cell lines, standardized the staging and grading of ovarian tumors, established prognostic factors for patients with ovarian cancer, and developed a national strategy for cooperative group clinical trials testing novel treatment strategies.
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