To accelerate breakthroughs, the Damon Runyon Foundation provides today's best young scientists with funds to pursue innovative cancer research.
Meet Damon Runyon Cancer Researchers — Fellows
The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation funds the best scientists in cancer research, those with talent and drive, whose promising work will bring about the next breakthroughs in cancer treatment, prevention and detection. In these videos, you will meet a few recent alumni as well as some of the more than 100 promising cancer researchers currently funded by Damon Runyon.
Damon Runyon Scientists' Videos
California Institute of Technology
Developing a new technique for visualizing interactions between cells
Matthew G. Vander Heiden, MD, PhD
Harvard Medical School
Illuminating cancer cells’ unusually fast metabolism
Sunny D. Gilbert, PhD
Oregon State University
Studying microRNAs to decipher the workings of our cells
Gianna Elena Hammer, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Boosting our immune response to tumor cells
Akinyemi I. Ojesina, MBBS, PhD
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Finding viruses that cause cancer
Monte Winslow, PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Deciphering the ability of cancer to grow and spread
Thomas M. Huckaba, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Understanding how cancer spreads
Harvard University
Understanding the link between aging and cancer
Northwestern University
Finding new cancer genes
University of Pennsylvania
Starving cancer cells
University of California, San Francisco
Defining brain stem cells
University of California, San Francisco
Looking for a cancer Achilles' heel
University of Washington
Designing new cancer drugs
University of California, San Francisco
Searching for an “off switch” for cancer