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Alan P. Fields

Alan P. Fields is an American cancer biologist and Professor of Cancer Biology at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, known for identifying PKCι as a human oncogene driving lung and ovarian cancers.

Alison M. Schram

Alison M. Schram is a medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center who specializes in early-phase trials of molecularly targeted cancer therapies and gynecologic cancers.

Andrei Goga

Andrei Goga is a physician-scientist and breast medical oncologist at UCSF, where he is Professor of Cell and Tissue Biology and co-leads the Breast Oncology Program, known for synthetic-lethal targeting of MYC-driven cancers.

Ángel R. Nebreda

Ángel R. Nebreda (Angel Rodríguez Nebreda), born 1961, is a Spanish molecular biologist at IRB Barcelona known for his research on the p38α MAP kinase pathway in cancer.

Anindya Dutta

Anindya Dutta is a biochemist and cancer researcher who studies DNA replication and noncoding RNAs, and chairs the Department of Genetics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Ashley R. Dunn

Ashley R. Dunn (Ashley Roger Dunn), born 1945 in the United Kingdom, is an Australian molecular biologist who co-cloned GM-CSF and led cancer research at the Ludwig Institute in Melbourne.

Axel Behrens

Axel Behrens is a molecular biologist and cancer researcher who leads the Adult Stem Cell Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute, studying pancreatic cancer stem cells.

Axel Ullrich

Axel Ullrich is a German molecular biologist whose work on growth factor receptors produced the targeted cancer therapies trastuzumab (Herceptin) and sunitinib, winning the 2019 Lasker Award.

Bengt Westermark

Bengt Westermark is a Swedish tumor-biology researcher and professor at Uppsala University, known for work on platelet-derived growth factor and cancer, especially glioblastoma, and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Channing J. Der

Channing J. Der is an American cancer cell biologist and pharmacologist at UNC-Chapel Hill who took part in the 1982 discovery of mutated RAS genes in human cancers.

Charles D. Scher

Charles D. Scher is a cancer researcher and pediatric hematologist-oncologist known for work on Abelson murine leukemia virus and platelet-derived growth factor, and now practices in New Orleans.

Christina A. Mitchell

Christina A. Mitchell AO is an Australian physician-scientist and biochemist who studies phosphoinositide signaling in cancer, and is the first woman appointed Dean of Medicine in an Australian Group of Eight university.

Christopher J. Marshall

Christopher J. Marshall (1949–2015) was a British cell biologist and cancer researcher at the Institute of Cancer Research, London, known for discovering the NRAS oncogene and mapping Ras signaling.

Daniel J. Donoghue

Daniel J. Donoghue, also published as D J Donoghue, is an American biochemist and cancer researcher, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UC San Diego.

Dario C. Altieri

Dario C. Altieri is an Italian-born American physician-scientist who discovered the survivin gene and has been President and CEO of The Wistar Institute in Philadelphia since 2015.

Denis C. Guttridge

Denis C. Guttridge is an American cancer biologist who studies NF-κB signaling in muscle wasting, and a professor at the Medical University of South Carolina.

Dennis W. Stacey

Dennis W. Stacey, born 1947, is an American cell biologist at the Cleveland Clinic who pioneered microinjection of mRNA and proteins into living cells to study Ras signaling.

Dihua Yu

Dihua Yu is a cancer biologist at MD Anderson Cancer Center, where she chairs Molecular Oncology and studies breast and pancreatic cancer metastasis and therapy resistance.

Donald Küfe

Donald W. Kufe is an American medical oncologist and cancer pharmacologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, known for identifying the MUC1-C oncoprotein and developing the CA15-3 breast cancer blood test.

Frank McCormick

Frank McCormick, also known as Francis Patrick McCormick, is an American cancer biologist at UCSF who studies RAS proteins and founded Onyx Pharmaceuticals, which developed sorafenib.

G. Paolo Dotto

Gian Paolo Dotto is a molecular biologist and cancer researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Lausanne, known for work on Notch signaling and field cancerization.

Gary Thomas (cell biologist)

Gary Thomas is an American cell biologist, professor at the University of Pittsburgh and researcher at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, known for identifying furin and the PACS proteins.

Geoffrey M. Cooper

Geoffrey M. Cooper (born 1948) is an American molecular biologist, Professor Emeritus at Boston University, known for discovering oncogenes in human cancers and writing The Cell: A Molecular Approach.

Geoffrey M. Wahl

Geoffrey M. Wahl, also known as Geoffrey Wahl, is an American molecular biologist and cancer researcher at the Salk Institute, known for linking p53 to genetic stability.

George C. Prendergast

George C. Prendergast is an American cancer researcher who developed IDO inhibitors and studied the Bin1 tumor suppressor gene, leading the Lankenau Institute for Medical Research since 2004.

Giannino Del Sal

Giannino Del Sal is an Italian molecular biologist, full professor of Applied Biology at the University of Trieste, known for cloning the growth-arrest gene gas1.

Giulio Draetta

Giulio Draetta is a molecular biologist and cancer researcher known for identifying the first mammalian cyclin-dependent kinase and serving as MD Anderson's first Chief Scientific Officer.

Grant A. McArthur

Grant A. McArthur is an Australian medical oncologist and melanoma researcher at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre who led the BRIM-3 and coBRIM trials establishing vemurafenib and cobimetinib.

Harold L. Moses

Harold L. Moses is an American cancer biologist who discovered that TGF-β inhibits cell proliferation and founded and directed the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center from 1993 to 2005.

Helen Piwnica‐Worms

Helen Piwnica-Worms is an American cancer biologist at MD Anderson known for showing how the CDK1 kinase drives mitosis and how checkpoints hold it off.