List of fellows of the AACR Academy


The American Association for Cancer Research elects classes of fellows to recognize influential scientists in the field of cancer research.
Six fellows were appointed to Vice President Biden’s Cancer Moonshot Initiative Blue Ribbon Panel. Several are members of the National Academy of Sciences, several have won a Lasker Award, several have won a Nobel Prize, several are HHMI Investigators, and several are past presidents of the AACR.
Year electedNameInstitution
2013Karen H. Antman, MDBoston University School of Medicine
2013David Baltimore, PhDCalifornia Institute of Technology
2013Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, PhDInstitute Pasteur
2013Paul Berg, PhDStanford University School of Medicine
2013Joseph R. Bertino, MDThe Cancer Institute of New Jersey/Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
2013J. Michael Bishop, MDUniversity of California, San Francisco
2013Mina J. Bissell, PhDLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
2013Elizabeth H. Blackburn, PhDSalk Institute
2013Sydney Brenner, MBChB, DPhilDeceased
2013Angela Hartley Brodie, PhDDeceased
2013Mario R. Capecchi, PhDUniversity of Utah
2013Webster K. Cavenee, PhDLudwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of California San Diego
2013Martin Chalfie, PhDColumbia University
2013Zhu Chen, MD, PhDNational People's Congress
2013Aaron J. Ciechanover, DSc, MDTechnion-Israel Institute of Technology
2013Bayard D. Clarkson, MDMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
2013Donald S. Coffey, PhDDeceased
2013Stanley N. Cohen, MDStanford University School of Medicine
2013Suzanne Cory, PhDWalter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research; University of Melbourne
2013Carlo M. Croce, MDOhio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center
2013Tom Curran, PhDChildren's Mercy Hospital
2013Brian J. Druker, MDOregon Health & Science University Knight Cancer Institute
2013Raymond N. DuBois, MD, PhDMedical University of South Carolina
2013Martin J. Evans, PhDCardiff University
2013Emmanuel Farber, MD, PhDDeceased
2013Napoleone Ferrara, MDMoores Cancer Center; University of California San Diego Moores Cancer Center
2013Isaiah J. Fidler, DVM, PhDUniversity of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
2013Bernard Fisher, MDDeceased
2013Joseph F. Fraumeni Jr., MDNational Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
2013Emil Frei III, MDDeceased
2013Elaine Fuchs, PhDRockefeller University
2013Judy E. Garber, MD, MPHCenter for Cancer Genetics and Prevention, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
2013Walter Gilbert, PhDBioVentures Investors
2013Alfred G. Gilman, MD, PhDDeceased
2013Carol W. Greider, PhDJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine
2013Roger C. L. Guillemin, MD, PhDThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies
2013John B. Gurdon, DPhilThe Wellcome Trust; Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute
2013William N. Hait, MD, PhDJanssen Research & Development, LLC
2013Leland H. Hartwell, PhDArizona State University Biodesign Institute
2013Avram Hershko, MD, PhDTechnion-Israel Institute of Technology
2013James F. Holland, MDDeceased
2013Jimmie C. Holland, MDDeceased
2013Waun Ki Hong, MDDeceased
2013Leroy E. Hood, MD, PhDInstitute for Systems Biology
2013H. Robert Horvitz, PhDMassachusetts Institute of Technology
2013Susan Band Horwitz, PhDAlbert Einstein College of Medicine
2013R. Timothy Hunt, PhDFormerly affiliated with Cancer Research UK
2013Tony Hunter, PhDSalk Institute
2013Tyler Jacks, PhDDavid H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2013Peter A. Jones, DSc, PhDVan Andel Research Institute
2013V. Craig Jordan, DSc, PhDUniversity of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
2013Y. W. Kan, DSc, MDUniversity of California, San Francisco
2013Mary-Claire King, PhDUniversity of Washington School of Medicine
2013Eva Klein, MD, PhDKarolinska Institute
2013George Klein, MD, PhDDeceased
2013Alfred G. Knudson Jr., MD, PhDDeceased
2013Brian K. Kobilka, MDStanford University School of Medicine
2013Margaret L. Kripke, PhDUniversity of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
2013Philip Leder, MDDeceased
2013Robert J. Lefkowitz, MDDuke University Medical Center
2013Arnold J. Levine, PhDInstitute for Advanced Study
2013Lawrence A. Loeb, MD, PhDUniversity of Washington School of Medicine
2013Tak W. Mak, PhDPrincess Margaret Cancer Centre, University of Toronto
2013Lynn M. Matrisian, PhDPancreatic Cancer Action Network
2013Frank McCormick, PhDUniversity of California, San Francisco
2013John Mendelsohn, MDDeceased
2013Donald Metcalf, MDDeceased
2013Enrico Mihich, MDDeceased
2013Beatrice Mintz, PhDFox Chase Cancer Center
2013Luc Montagnier, MDPasteur Institute
2013Harold L. Moses, MDVanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
2013Paul M. Nurse, PhDFrancis Crick Institute
2013Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, MDUniversity of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
2013Arthur B. Pardee, PhDDeceased
2013Martine J. Piccart, MD, PhDInstitute Jules Bordet
2013Bruce A.J. Ponder, PhDCancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute
2013Richard J. Roberts, PhDNew England Biolabs, Inc.
2013Irwin A. Rose, PhDDeceased
2013Janet D. Rowley, MDDeceased
2013Frederick Sanger, PhDDeceased
2013Alan C. Sartorelli, PhDDeceased
2013Andrew V. Schally, PhDUniversity of Miami
2013Phillip A. Sharp, PhDMassachusetts Institute of Technology
2013Charles J. Sherr, MD, PhDSt. Jude Children's Research Hospital
2013Osamu Shimomura, PhDDeceased
2013Dennis J. Slamon, MD, PhDUniversity of California Los Angeles
2013Oliver Smithies, DPhilDeceased
2013Michael B. Sporn, MDGeisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
2013Louise C. Strong, MDUniversity of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
2013Takashi Sugimura, MDToho University; National Cancer Center
2013John E. Sulston, PhDDeceased
2013Jack W. Szostak, PhDMassachusetts General Hospital
2013Roger Y. Tsien, PhDDeceased
2013Arthur C. Upton, MDDeceased
2013George F. Vande Woude, PhVan Andel Research Institute
2013Bert Vogelstein, MDLudwig Center for Cancer Genetics and Therapeutics; Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
2013Peter K. Vogt, PhDThe Scripps Research Institute
2013Daniel D. Von Hoff, MDTranslational Genomics Research Institute
2013Geoffrey M. Wahl, PhDThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies
2013James D. Watson, DSc, PhDCold Spring Harbor Laboratory
2013Lee W. Wattenberg, MDDeceased
2013Robert A. Weinberg, PhDLudwig Center for Molecular Oncology; Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2013John H. Weisburger, PhDDeceased
2013Jane Cooke Wright, MDDeceased
2013Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhDUniversity of California San Francisco
2013Harald zur Hausen, DSc, MDGerman Cancer Research Center
2014Jerry Adams, PhDWalter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
2014James P. Allison, PhDUniversity of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
2014Mariano Barbacid, PhDCentro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncologicas
2014Jose Baselga, MD, PhDMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
2014Stephen B. Baylin, MDJohns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center
2014Günter Blobel, MD, PhDDeceased
2014David Botstein, PhDPrinceton University, Calico
2014Joan Brugge, PhDHarvard Medical School
2014Lewis C. Cantley, PhDWeill Cornell Medical College
2014Pierre Chambon, MDUniversity of Strasbourg
2014Hans Clevers, MD, PhDUniversity of Utrecht
2014James E. Darnell Jr., MDThe Rockefeller University
2014Titia de Lange, PhDThe Rockefeller University
2014Vincent T. DeVita Jr., MDYale Medical School
2014Lawrence H. Einhorn, MDIndiana University School of Medicine
2014Stephen J. Elledge, PhDBrigham and Women’s Hospital
2014Ronald M. Evans, PhDSalk Institute for Biological Studies
2014Andrew Fire, PhDStanford University School of Medicine
2014Emil J. Freireich, MDUniversity of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
2014Robert C. Gallo, MDUniversity of Maryland School of Medicine
2014Douglas Hanahan, PhDSwiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research
2014Richard O. Hynes, PhDMassachusetts Institute of Technology
2014William Kaelin, Jr., MDDana-Farber Cancer Institute Harvard Medical School
2014Kenneth W. Kinzler, PhDJohns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center
2014Richard Kolodner, PhDLudwig Institute for Cancer Research
2014Ronald Levy, MDStanford University School of Medicine
2014Frederick Pei Li, MDDeceased
2014David M. Livingston, MDDana-Farber Cancer Institute
2014Paul A. Marks, MDMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
2014Peter Nowell, MDDeceased
2014Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, PhDMax Planck Institute for Developmental Biology
2014Sir Richard Peto, FRSUniversity of Oxford
2014Charles L. Sawyers, MDMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
2014Sir Michael Stratton, MBBS, PhDWellcome Trust Sanger Institute
2014Axel Ullrich, PhDMax Planck Institute of Biochemistry
2014Inder Verma, PhDSalk Institute for Biological Sciences
2014Irving Weissman, MDStanford University School of Medicine
2014Owen Witte, MDUniversity of California, Los Angeles
2015Kenneth C. Anderson, MDDana-Farber Cancer Institute
2015Carlos L. Arteaga, MDVanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
2015Anton J.M. Berns, PhDNetherlands Cancer Institute
2015Bruce A. Chabner, MDMassachusetts General Hospital
2015Ronald A. DePinho, MDUniversity of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
2015Susan D. Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPHBill & Melinda Gates Foundation
2015Robert N. EisenmanFred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
2015Douglas R. Lowy, MDNational Cancer Institute
2015Carol L. Prives, PhDColumbia University
2015Steven A. Rosenberg, MD, PhDNational Cancer Institute
2015Craig B. Thompson, MDMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
2016Bruce Alberts, PhDUniversity of California, San Francisco
2016Clara D. Bloomfield, MDDeceased
2016Thomas R. Cech, PhDUniversity of Colorado, Boulder
2016John E. Dick, PhDUniversity of Toronto
2016Joe W. Gray, PhDOregon Health & Science University
2016Rudolf Jaenisch, MDWhitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
2016Eric S. Lander, PhDThe Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
2016Sir David P. Lane, PhDLudwig Institute for Cancer Research
2016Henry T. Lynch, MDDeceased
2016Joan Massagué, PhDMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
2016Joseph Schlessinger, PhDYale School of Medicine
2017Sir Adrian P. Bird, PhDUniversity of Edinburgh
2017Emmanuelle Charpentier, PhDMax Planck Institute for Infection Biology
2017Riccardo Dalla-Favera, MDColumbia University
2017Nancy E. Davidson, MDUniversity of Washington
2017Vishva M. Dixit, MDGenentech
2017Jennifer A. Doudna, PhDUC Berkeley
2017Carl H. June, MDUniversity of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
2017Michael Karin, PhDUC San Diego
2017Michael B. Kastan, MD, PhDDuke University School of Medicine
2017Tomas Lindahl, MD, FRSFrancis Crick Institute
2017Paul L. Modrich, PhDDuke University Medical Center
2017Karen H. Vousden, PhDFrancis Crick Institute
2018Alan Ashworth, PhD, FRSUniversity of California, San Francisco
2018René Bernards, DPhilNetherlands Cancer Institute
2018Bruce A. Beutler, MDUT Southwestern Medical Center
2018Michael A. Caligiuri, MDCity of Hope National Medical Center
2018Chi Van Dang, MD, PhDLudwig Institute for Cancer Research
2018Gary Gilliland, MD, PhDFred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
2018Laurie H. Glimcher, MDDana–Farber Cancer Institute
2018Elizabeth M. Jaffee, MDJohns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center
2018Richard D. Klausner, MDJuno Therapeutics
2018Roger D. Kornberg, PhDStanford University School of Medicine
2018Arthur D. Levinson, PhDCalico Life Sciences
2018Norman E. Sharpless, MDNational Cancer Institute
2019Frederick R. Appelbaum, MDFred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
2019Dafna Bar-Sagi, PhDNYU Langone Medical Center
2019Lisa M. Coussens, PhDKnight Cancer Institute; Oregon Health & Science University
2019George Q. Daley, MD, PhDHarvard Medical School
2019Gerard Evan, PhDUniversity of Cambridge
2019Gordon J. Freeman, PhDDana–Farber Cancer Institute
2019Levi A. Garraway, MD, PhDEli Lilly and Company
2019Melvyn Greaves, PhDInstitute of Cancer Research
2019Philip D. Greenberg, MDFred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
2019Daniel Haber, MD, PhDHarvard Medical School
2019Jules A. Hoffmann, PhDUniversity of Strasbourg
2019Tasuku Honjo, MD, PhDKyoto University
2019Scott W. Lowe, PhDMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
2019Elaine Mardis, PhDNationwide Children's Hospital
2019Larry Norton, MDMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
2019Moshe Oren, PhDWeizmann Institute of Science
2019Robert D. Schreiber, PhDWashington University in St. Louis
2019Arlene H. Sharpe, MD, PhDHarvard Medical School
2019Louis M. Staudt, MD, PhDNational Cancer Institute
2019Bruce William Stillman, PhDCold Spring Harbor Laboratory
2019Zena Werb, PhDUniversity of California, San Francisco
2019Eric F. Wieschaus, PhDPrinceton University
2020Myles A. Brown, MDDana-Farber Cancer Institute; Harvard Medical School
2020Judith Campisi, PhDBuck Institute for Research on Aging
2020Arul Chinnaiyan, MD, PhDUniversity of Michigan
2020Alan D. D'Andrea, MDDana-Farber Cancer Institute; Harvard Medical School
2020Mark M. Davis, PhDStanford University School of Medicine
2020Gregory J. Hannon, PhDUniversity of Cambridge
2020Rakesh K. Jain, PhDHarvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital
2020Maria Jasin, PhDMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
2020Robert S. Langer, ScDMassachusetts Institute of Technology
2020Bert W. O'Malley, MDBaylor College of Medicine
2020Drew Mark Pardoll, MD, PhDJohns Hopkins University
2020Kornelia Polyak, MD, PhDHarvard Medical School
2020Peter J. Ratcliffe, FRSUniversity of Oxford
2020Antoni Ribas, MD, PhDUniversity of California Los Angeles Medical Center
2020Gregg L. Semenza, MD, PhDJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine
2020Charles Swanton, MD, PhDThe Francis Crick Institute and University College London Cancer Institute
2020David A. Tuveson, MD, PhDCold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cancer Center
2020Michael Wigler, PhDCold Spring Harbor Laboratory
2020Sir Gregory P. Winter, CBE, FRS, FMedSciTrinity College