Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation

Election to the National Academy of Sciences is one of the highest honors that can be earned by a U.S. scientist.  In recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original biomedical research, 13 members of the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation circle were inducted this April:

DAMON RUNYON FELLOWS
Lewis L. Lanier, PhD (Fellow ‘79-‘80 and Former Sponsor) Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco, California

DAMON RUNYON COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Robert J. Fletterick, PhD (Fellowship Award Committee Member ‘93-‘97 and Former Sponsor) Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, California
William G. Kaelin, Jr., MD (Current Clinical Investigator Award Committee Member) Professor, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

DAMON RUNYON FELLOWSHIP SPONSORS and CLINICAL INVESTIGATOR MENTORS
Angelika Amon, PhD, Professor of Biology, David H. Koch Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Philip N. Benfey, PhD, Professor, Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Donald E. Ganem, MD, Professor of Microbiology and Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California
James E. Haber, PhD, Abraham and Etta Goodman Chair of Biology and Director, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
Ulrike A. Heberlein, PhD, Professor, Department of Anatomy, University of California, San Francisco, California
Douglas E. Koshland, PhD, Senior Staff Member, Department of Embryology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Baltimore, Maryland
Ruslan M. Medzhitov, PhD, David W. Wallace Professor of Immunobiology, Department of Immunobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
Roeland Nusse, PhD, Professor, Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
Charles L. Sawyers, MD, Chairman, Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
Kevin Struhl, PhD, David Wesley Gaiser Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

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