Lisa M. Coussens was named president of the American Association for Cancer Research for 2022-2023. She was inaugurated during the AACR Annual Business Meeting, held in New Orleans on April 11.
Philip D. Greenberg was named American Association for Cancer Research president-elect for 2022-2023. He will assume the presidency in April 2023 at the next AACR Annual Meeting in Orlando, FL.Â
In recent weeks, The Cancer Letter has reported on 2022 AACR awards presented to Tony Hunter, John E. Dick, Elaine S. Jaffe, Levi A. Garraway, Karen Lu, and Steven A. Roseberg, as well as this year’s AACR Fellows (The Cancer Letter, March 25, March 25, April 1, 2022).Â
Steven A. Rosenberg will be presented with the Pezcoller Foundation-AACR International Award for Extraordinary Achievement in Cancer Research at the AACR Annual Meeting 2022, to be held in New Orleans April 8-13.
The American Association for Cancer Research has elected 33 scientists to its 2022 class of Fellows of the AACR Academy.
On March 2, a bus filled with Ukrainian children was getting ready to leave Odesa for the border of Moldova, Ukraine’s closest neighbor.
The American Association for Cancer Research released the AACR Report on the Impact of COVID-19 on Cancer Research and Patient Care, providing a comprehensive view of the burden of COVID-19 among patients with cancer; the challenges presented by the pandemic in cancer research and patient care; and the changes implemented during the pandemic that have unexpectedly improved research practices and access to care.
Congress needs to increase the FY22 base budgets of NIH and NCI by $3.2 billion and $1.1 billion, respectively, over FY21 levels, the American Association for Cancer Research said in its 2021 Cancer Progress Report.
In an expression of support for increasing funding for cancer research and prevention, the Bidens earlier this week endorsed the National Cancer Research Month.
