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Alan Bernstein
Alan Bernstein, born 1947, is a Canadian cancer and stem cell biologist known for KIT gene research and for leading the Lunenfeld Institute, CIHR, and CIFAR.
Albert J. Fornace
Albert J. Fornace Jr. is an American cancer and radiation biologist who studies how cells detect DNA damage, holding a research chair at Georgetown's Lombardi Cancer Center since 2006.
Alice Y. Ting
Alice Y. Ting, also published as Alice Ting, is an American chemical biologist who developed the proximity labeling enzymes APEX2, TurboID, and miniTurbo, and has been a Stanford professor since 2016.
Andreas Trumpp
Andreas Trumpp is a German cancer biologist who leads the Division of Stem Cells and Cancer at the German Cancer Research Center and directs the HI-STEM institute in Heidelberg.
Arthur B. Pardee
Arthur B. Pardee (1921–2019) was an American molecular biologist and cancer researcher at Dana-Farber and Harvard, known for the PaJaMo experiment, the restriction point, and differential display.
Bernhard Lüscher
Bernhard Lüscher is a German molecular biologist and biochemist at RWTH Aachen known for work on oncoproteins like Myb and c-Myc and on mono-ADP-ribosylation, which controls DNA repair and signaling.
Bharat B. Aggarwal
Bharat B. Aggarwal, full name Bharat Bhushan Aggarwal, is a biochemist who discovered TNF-α and TNF-β and led cytokine research at MD Anderson from 1989 to 2015.
Bohdan Wasylyk
Bohdan Wasylyk is a French-based molecular biologist in Strasbourg known for defining how the SV40 enhancer works and helping establish the Ets transcription factor family.
Carmia Borek
Carmia Borek is a radiation and molecular biologist who showed in 1966 that X-rays malignantly transform cells in culture, working at Weizmann, Columbia, and Tufts.
Carol Prives
Carol Prives is a cancer biologist and DaCosta Professor of Biology at Columbia University, known since the late 1980s for her studies of the p53 tumor suppressor protein.
Charles D. Stiles
Charles D. Stiles is an American molecular biologist and neurobiologist who joined Harvard and Dana-Farber in 1976, known for cloning PDGF-regulated genes and Olig transcription factor work.
Chi Van Dang
Chi Van Dang, also known as Chi V. Dang, is a Vietnamese-born American cancer biologist known for showing how the MYC oncogene reprograms cancer cell metabolism.
Christian Metallo
Christian M. Metallo is a bioengineer holding the Daniel and Martina Lewis Chair at the Salk Institute who studies cancer metabolism, serine and glycine restriction, and diabetic neuropathy.
Clodagh O'Shea
Clodagh O'Shea is an Irish molecular biologist, a professor at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, known for research on oncolytic adenoviruses engineered to kill cancer cells.
Daniel Peeper
Daniel S. Peeper is a Dutch cancer biologist who, since 2017, has headed the Division of Molecular Oncology & Immunology at the Netherlands Cancer Institute.
David A. Patterson
David A. Patterson is an American molecular biologist and somatic-cell geneticist known for work on purine biosynthesis, Down syndrome, aging, and the c-mos oncogene in leukemia.
David M. Langenau
David M. Langenau is a cancer biologist and Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and Mass General, known for creating the first transgenic zebrafish cancer model.
Donald E. Ayer
Donald E. Ayer is an American molecular biologist known for defining the Mad–Max transcriptional repression system that antagonizes the cancer-driving Myc oncoprotein. He has been a professor at the University of Utah since 1995.
Douglas C. Dean
Douglas C. Dean is a molecular biologist holding an endowed chair at the University of Louisville, known for Cell papers on the retinoblastoma protein and later research on retinitis pigmentosa.
Eduard Batlle
Eduard Batlle is a Spanish cancer biologist and ICREA Research Professor who heads the Colorectal Cancer Laboratory at IRB Barcelona, studying intestinal stem cells and metastasis.
Eli Canaani
Eli Canaani is an Israeli molecular biologist and emeritus professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for identifying the BCR-ABL fusion gene behind chronic myelogenous leukemia.
Erik Sahai
Erik Sahai is a cancer biologist who leads the Tumour Cell Biology Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute in London, studying how cancer spreads and resists treatment.
Gary S. Stein
Gary S. Stein is an American cell and cancer biologist, Professor and Chair of Biochemistry at the University of Vermont, known for research on Runx2 and mitotic gene bookmarking.
Gerard Evan
Gerard Evan is a British cancer biologist who studies the Myc oncogene and p53, and pioneered mice in which cancer genes can be reversibly toggled.
Glen Barber
Glen Barber is an English-born molecular immunologist and cancer biologist who discovered the STING DNA-sensing pathway in 2008, a Fellow of the Royal Society now at Ohio State.
Grady F. Saunders
Grady F. Saunders is a molecular biologist at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, known for the 1991 positional cloning of the candidate aniridia gene, now called PAX6.
Greg Goodall
Greg Goodall, also known as Gregory J. Goodall, is an Australian cancer researcher at SA Pathology and Adelaide University known for work on microRNAs and circular RNAs in cancer metastasis.
Heather R. Christofk
Heather R. Christofk is an American biochemist and UCLA professor who studies how metabolism is regulated in normal and cancerous cells, known for work on PKM2 in tumors.
Hiroyuki Mano
Hiroyuki Mano (間野博行) is a Japanese cancer genomics researcher who discovered the EML4-ALK fusion oncogene in lung cancer in 2007, enabling ALK inhibitors, and has been President of the National Cancer Center in Tokyo since 2025.
Inder M. Verma
Inder M. Verma is an Indian-born American molecular biologist at the Salk Institute who pioneered viral vectors for gene therapy and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1997.