To accelerate breakthroughs, the Damon Runyon Foundation provides today's best young scientists with funds to pursue 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
- Why We’re Losing the War on Cancer (And How To Win It)
Clifton Leaf - Fortune Magazine
October 13, 2008
Election to the Institute of Medicine is one of the highest honors that can be earned in the fields of medicine and health. In recognition of their outstanding achievements, 10 members of the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation circle were inducted this October:
Kathryn V. Anderson, PhD (Fellowship Award Committee Member '96-'99, Scholar Award Panel Member '03-'05, Former Damon Runyon Sponsor), Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
Sanjiv Sam Gambhir, MD, PhD (Innovation Award Committee Member), Stanford University, Stanford, California
Douglas Hanahan, PhD (Former Damon Runyon Sponsor), University of California, San Francisco, California
Arthur L. Horwich, MD (Former Damon Runyon Sponsor), Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
John W. Kappler, PhD (Former Damon Runyon Sponsor), National Jewish Health Center, Denver, Colorado
Raju S. Kucherlapati, PhD (Damon Runyon Grantee '73-'74), Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Philippa Marrack, PhD (Damon Runyon Fellow '71-'73 and Fellowship Award Committee Member), National Jewish Health Center, Denver, Colorado
John E. Niederhuber, MD (Damon Runyon Grantee ‘75-‘76), National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
David C. Page, MD (Former Damon Runyon Sponsor), Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Charles L. Sawyers, MD (Former Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Mentor), Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York