The nomination process and other details about the AACR-National Foundation for Cancer Research Professorship in Basic Cancer Research (informally referred to as the AACR-NFCR Professorship) are located on the AACR Website at http://www.aacr.org. The nomination deadline is Friday, September 12, 2003.
This one-year Professorship provides a $50,000 grant for research expenses. The AACR-NFCR Professor will be honored during the 95th AACR Annual Meeting (March 27-31, 2004 in Orlando, Florida).
The 2003 recipient of the AACR-NFCR Professorship is Manuel Perucho, Ph.D., Director, Oncogene and Suppressor Gene Program, The Burnham Institute, La Jolla, Calif. Dr. Perucho's laboratory studies the mechanisms underlying gastrointestinal cancer of the microsatellite mutator phenotype pathway.
The AACR-NFCR Professorship was established in 2000 in honor of Franklin and Tamara Salisbury, who are best known in the scientific research community for having founded the National Foundation for Cancer Research in 1973. Built on a commitment to support basic science cancer research in the laboratory, they were determined that NFCR should raise money to support innovative and untried ideas of the best minds, and to facilitate collaboration among different disciplines.
"The AACR-NFCR Professorship, in honor of Franklin and Tamara Salisbury, isan excellent example of how the AACR can unite with like-minded organizations to support cutting-edge basic cancer research and move us toward our common goal of preventing and curing the horrible disease that is cancer," said Dr. Margaret Foti, Chief Executive Officer of the AACR.
Founded in 1907, the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) is a professional society of more than 20,000 laboratory and clinical scientists engaged in cancer research in the United States and more than 60 other countries. AACR's mission is to accelerate the prevention and cure of cancer through research, education, communication and advocacy. Its principal activities include the publication of five major peer-reviewed scientific journals (Cancer Research; Clinical Cancer Research; Molecular Cancer Therapeutics; Molecular Cancer Research; and Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention). AACR's Annual Meeting attracts more than 16,000 participants who share new and significant discoveries in the cancer field, and the AACR's specialty meetings throughout the year focus on all the important areas of basic, translational and clinical cancer research.