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American Cancer Society Research Professor and Clinical Research Professor Grants in Effect
During FY 2007 - 2008
Here are the Society's most prestigious grantees: our 18 Research Professors and 13 Clinical Research Professors as of July 2008.

RESEARCH PROFESSORS:

John Coffin, PhD
Tufts University, Boston, MA
Area of Research: Molecular biology of retroviruses
Term: 01/01/94 through 12/31/08

Ronald A. DePinho, MD
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
Area of Research: Mechanisms governing senescence and immortalization
Term: 01/01/99 through 12/31/08

Christine Guthrie, PhD
University of California, San Francisco, CA
Area of Research: mRNA splicing and transport
(Frank and Else Schilling-ACS Research Professorship)
Term: 01/01/92 through 12/31/11

Douglas Hanahan, PhD
University of California, San Francisco, CA
Area of Research: Carcinogenesis pathways, mechanisms, and new therapeutics
(F.M. Kirby-ACS Research Professorship)
Term: 01/01/06 through 12/31/2010

R. Scott Hawley, PhD
Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO
Area of Research: The origins of meiotic and mitotic aneuploidy
Term: 01/1/05 through 12/31/09

Stephen S. Hecht, PhD
The Cancer Center University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Area of Research: Mechanisms and prevention of cancer induced by tobacco products
Term: 01/1/00 through 12/31/09

Tony Hunter, PhD
Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA
Area of Research: Protein phosphorylation in growth and oncogenesis
(Frank and Else Schilling-ACS Research Professorship)
Term: 01/01/93 through 12/31/07

Michael Karin, PhD
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Area of Research: Signal transduction cascades and the cancer cell
(Frank and Else Schilling-ACS Research Professorship)
Term: 01/01/99 through 12/31/08

Cynthia J. Kenyon, PhD
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Area of Research: Genetic Analysis of aging in C. elegans
Term: 01/1/05 through 12/31/09

Mary-Claire King, PhD
University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA
Area of Research: Breast cancer genetics and epidemiology
(Walt Disney-American Cancer Society Research Professor for Breast Cancer)
Term: 01/01/05 through 12/31/09

Lewis L. Lanier, PhD
University of California, San Francisco, CA
Area of Research: Cancer immunology of tumors
Term: 01/1/03 through 12/31/12

Luis F. Parada, PhD
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Area of Research: Modeling tumors of the nervous system in mice
Term: 01/01/04 through 12/31/08

Leona Samson, PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Area of Research: DNA alkylation repair and cancer
(Ellison Foundation-ACS Research Professorship)
Term: 01/01/01 through 06/30/2011

Stewart Shuman, M.D., PhD
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
Area of Research: RNA repair
Term: 01/1/05 through 12/31/09

Bill Sugden, PhD
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Area of Research: Transforming functions of epstein-barr virus
Term: 01/1/00 through 12/31/09

Inder Verma, PhD
Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA
Area of Research: Network of nuclear oncoproteins: role in regulation of cell growth
Term: 01/01/06 through 12/31/2010

Graham Walker, PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Area of Research: DNA repair and symbiosis
Term: 01/01/02 through 12/31/11

Terry L. Orr-Weaver, PhD
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Area of Research: Regulation of Chromosome Segregation and DNA Replication
Term: 01/01/07 through 12/31/11

Michael H. Wigler, PhD
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
Area of Research: Control of cell proliferation
Term: 01/01/91 through 12/31/2010

CLINICAL RESEARCH PROFESSORS:

Carlos L. Arteaga, MD
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
Area of Research: EGF Receptors in Human Breast Cancer Cells as a Target for Antitumor Therapy
Term: 07/1/07 through 06/30/12

Irwin D. Bernstein, MD
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
Area of Research: Normal and malignant hematopoiesis
(F.M. Kirby-ACS Clinical Research Professorship)
Term: 07/01/95 through 06/30/10

Graham A. Colditz, MD, DrPH
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Seattle, WA
Area of Research: Breast cancer epidemiology and prevention
Term: 07/1/03 through 6/30/08

Ethan Dmitrovsky, MD
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Area of Research: Bidirectional Translational Research for Lung Cancer
Term: 07/1/08 through 6/30/13

James L. Ferrara, MD
University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI
Area of Research: Novel Strategies to Treat Graft Versus Host Disease
Term: 07/01/08 through 06/30/13

Patricia Ganz, MD
University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Area of Research: Enhancing patient outcomes across the cancer control continuum
Term: 07/01/99 through 06/30/09

Jennifer R. Grandis, MD
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Area of Research: Head and Neck Cancer as a Model for Bedside-to-Bench Research
Term: 07/01/08 through 06/30/13

Jean-Pierre Issa, MD
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas, Houston, TX
Area of Research: Epi Genetics of Cancer
Term: 07/1/07 through 06/30/12

Ronald Levy, MD
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Area of Research: Immunobiology of human lymphoid malignancy
(Frank and Else Schilling-ACS Clinical Research Professorship)
Term: 07/01/87 through 12/31/08

Kenneth J. Pienta, MD
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Area of Research: Treatments targeting prostate cancer
Term: 07/1/03 through 6/30/08

Dennis J. Slamon, MD, PhD
University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Area of Research: HER2 alteration in human breast cancer
Term: 07/01/04 through 06/30/09

Kurt Stange, MD, PhD
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
Area of Research: Family Medicine Best Practices
Term: 07/01/07 through 06/30/12

Thomas P. Stossel, MD
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Area of Research: Mechanisms of cell motility
(Ellison Foundation -ACS Clinical Research Professorship)
Term: 07/01/87 through 06/30/12

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