David A. Tuveson, was elected president-elect of the American Association for Cancer Research for 2021-22 by the members of the AACR.
He became president-elect on April 29, 2020, during the AACR’s Business Meeting of Members and will assume the presidency in April 2021 at the AACR annual meeting in Washington, D.C.
Tuveson is director of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cancer Center, where he is also the Roy J. Zuckerberg Professor of Cancer Research. He is chief scientist for the Lustgarten Foundation, the largest pancreatic cancer research philanthropy.
Tuveson is a medical staff affiliate at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and also works closely with the Cancer Institute at Northwell Health. He serves on the Board of Scientific Advisors of the NCI. His basic and translational research focuses on increasing our understanding of the biology of pancreatic cancer and on identifying and testing in preclinical and clinical settings new approaches for diagnosing and treating the disease.
