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AACR 2016 Awards and Lectureships

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ROBERT WEINBERG was honored for his contributions to cancer research and cancer biology with the 13th annual AACR Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cancer Research. Weinberg is a founding member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research; the Daniel K. Ludwig professor for cancer research in the Department of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of...

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