Benjamin F. Cravatt has received the 2020 AACR Award for Outstanding Achievement in Chemistry in Cancer Research.
Christopher I. Amos has received the 2020 AACR-American Cancer Society Award for Research Excellence in Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention.
Michael Karin, fellow of the AACR Academy, received the 2020 AACR-G.H.A. Clowes Award for Outstanding Basic Cancer Research.
Michelle M. Le Beau has received the 2020 AACR-Margaret Foti Award for Leadership and Extraordinary Achievements in Cancer Research.
Barbara J. Wold received the AACR-Irving Weinstein Foundation Distinguished Lectureship.
Luis A. Diaz has received the AACR-Waun Ki Hong Award for Outstanding Achievement in Translational and Clinical Cancer Research.
Tyler Jacks, fellow of the AACR Academy, received the the 2020 AACR Princess Takamatsu Memorial Lectureship.
Roy S. Herbst, Douglas R. Lowy, Yoshiyuki Majima, and Patricia Spears, received the AACR Distinguished Public Service Awards.
AACR has named its newly elected class of Fellows of the AACR Academy.
Charles L. Sawyers, chair of the Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, was elected president-elect by the fellows of the American Association for Cancer Research for 2020-2021.