- Damon Runyon Fellowship Award
- Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award
- Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award
Damon Runyon identifies today’s most brilliant early career scientists and funds their innovative cancer research.
- Today’s Promising Areas of Cancer Research
- What is Cancer?
- A Broken Pipeline?
A Generation of Science at Risk
- ARISE Report
Early Career Scientists and High-Risk, High Reward Research - American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellowship Award Committee
CHAIR
Rama Ranganathan, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Pharmacology
Cecil H. and Ida Green Chair in Biomedical Science
Director, Green Center Division for Systems Biology
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas
VICE CHAIR
Daniel E. Gottschling, PhD
Member, Basic Sciences Division
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, Washington
Victor R. Ambros, PhD
Professor, Program in Molecular Medicine
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Worcester, Massachusetts
David P. Bartel, PhD
Investigator, HHMI
Professor of Biology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Member, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Lynn Cooley, PhD
Professor of Genetics, Cell Biology and Molecular,
Cellular and Developmental Biology
Department of Genetics
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, Connecticut
Frederick R. Cross, PhD
Professor, Laboratory of Yeast Molecular Genetics
The Rockefeller University
New York, New York
Andrew G. Dillin, PhD
Investigator, HHMI
Pioneer Developmental Chair
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Molecular and Cell Biology Lab
La Jolla, California
Robert N. Eisenman, PhD
Member, Division of Basic Sciences
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, Washington
Sankar Ghosh, PhD
Silverstein and Hutt Family Professor
of Microbiology and Chairman
Department of Microbiology
Columbia University
New York, New York
R. Kiplin Guy, PhD
Chairman
Department of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Memphis, Tennessee
Thomas S. Hays, PhD
Professor
Department of Genetics, Cell and Developmental Biology
University of Minnesota
Minnesota, Minneapolis
Tyler Jacks, PhD
Investigator, HHMI
Ludwig Scholar
David H. Koch Professor of Biology and Director
David H. Hoch Center for Integrative Cancer Research
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Maria Jasin, PhD
Member, Molecular Biology Program
Sloan-Kettering Institute
New York, New York
Steven D. Leach, MD
Professor of Surgery, Oncology and Cell Biology
McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine
The Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland
Liqun Luo, PhD
Investigator, HHMI
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
Stanford University
Stanford, California
Philippa C. Marrack, FRS, PhD
Investigator, HHMI
Member, Department of Immunology
National Jewish Medical and Research Center
Denver, Colorado
David J. McConkey, PhD
Professor of Urology
Director of Urologic Research
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas
Ramon E. Parsons, MD, PhD
Avon Foundation Professor of Medicine
and Pathology
Institute for Cancer Genetics
Assistant Director of Neuro-Oncology
Herbert Irving Cancer Center
Columbia University
New York, New York
Norbert Perrimon, PhD
Investigator, HHMI
Professor of Genetics
Department of Genetics
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
Amita Sehgal, PhD
Investigator, HHMI
Professor, Department of Neuroscience
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Andrey S. Shaw, MD
Investigator, HHMI
Emil R. Unanue Professor of Immunobiology
Department of Pathology and Immunology
Washington University
Saint Louis, Missouri
Brent R. Stockwell, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Biological Sciences and
Department of Chemistry
Columbia University
New York, New York
Wilfred A. van der Donk, PhD
Investigator, HHMI
Richard E. Heckert Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, Illinois
Terry A. Van Dyke, PhD
Chief, Mouse Cancer Genetics Program
Center for Cancer Research
Director, Center for Advanced Preclinical Research
National Cancer Institute at Frederick
Frederick, Maryland
Johannes Walter, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Biological Chemistry
and Molecular Pharmacology
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
Professor, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Rutgers University
Associate Director for Basic Science
The Cancer Institute of New Jersey
New Brunswick, New Jersey
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