Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation

Nine members of the Damon Runyon Foundation circle were elected to the Institute of Medicine, one of the highest honors that can be earned by a U.S. scientist.

DAMON RUNYON COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Webster K. Cavenee, PhD (Former Board Member and Fellowship Award Committee Member '89-'93) Director, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, and Distinguished Professor, University of California, San Diego, California
William G. Kaelin, Jr., MD (Clinical Investigator Award Committee Member) Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Professor, Harvard Medical School, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
Ronald Levy, MD (Board Member, Innovation Award Selection Committee Member, Clinical Investigator Sponsor and Clinical Investigator Award Committee Member '00-'07) Professor and Chief, Division of Oncology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
Jeffrey V. Ravetch, MD, PhD (Fellowship Award Committee Member '96-'00) Theresa and Eugene M. Lang Professor and Head, Leonard Wagner Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Immunology, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York

DAMON RUNYON FELLOWSHIP SPONSORS
James P. Allison, PhD, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Chair, Immunology Program, Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York, New York
Kathryn Lee Calame, PhD, Professor, Departments of Microbiology, Biochemistry, and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York, New York
Louis J. Ptácek, MD, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and John C. Coleman Distinguished Professor of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, California
Matthew P. Scott, PhD, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Professor of Developmental Biology, Genetics, and Bioengineering, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
Jonathan G. Seidman, PhD, Henrietta B. and Frederick H. Bugher Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

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