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Somasekar Seshagiri
Somasekar Seshagiri, known as Sekar Seshagiri, is a cancer genomics researcher who spent 21 years at Genentech and first-authored a 2012 Nature study of R-spondin fusions in colon cancer.
Stanley J. Korsmeyer
Stanley J. Korsmeyer (1950–2005) was an American physician-scientist who showed that BCL2 causes cancer by blocking cell death rather than driving growth, founding the molecular study of apoptosis in cancer.
Suzanne J. Baker
Suzanne J. Baker is a molecular biologist at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis who studies pediatric high-grade glioma and co-discovered histone H3 mutations in these brain tumors.
Takis S. Papas
Takis S. Papas (1935–1999) was an American molecular biologist at the National Cancer Institute known for cloning the ETS oncogene family and co-sequencing the AIDS virus genome.
Tetsu Akiyama
Tetsu Akiyama (秋山 徹) is a Japanese molecular oncologist and Project Professor at the University of Tokyo's Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, known for identifying D-Axin and Asef.
Theodore G. Krontiris
Theodore G. Krontiris is a molecular biologist and cancer geneticist known for the reported association between rare HRAS1 alleles and the risk of common cancers.
Thomas F. Westbrook
Thomas F. Westbrook, known as Trey Westbrook, is an American cancer biologist and professor at Baylor College of Medicine known for genome-scale screens finding vulnerabilities in breast cancer.
Ulf R. Rapp
Ulf R. Rapp, full name Ulf Rüdiger Rapp, is a molecular biologist and cancer researcher known for discovering the RAF oncogene and RAF/MYC cooperation in transformation.
Webster K. Cavenee
Webster K. Cavenee is an American cancer geneticist whose retinoblastoma studies gave the first genetic evidence for tumor suppressor genes in humans; he later found EGFRvIII in aggressive brain tumors.
Xifeng Wu
Xifeng Wu is a Chinese cancer epidemiologist and dean of the School of Public Health at Zhejiang University, known for the finding that 15 minutes of daily exercise extends life.