Fourteen members of the American Association for Cancer Research have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, a nonprofit governmental advisory organization, according to an Oct. 21 news release.
The 14 AACR members elected to the NAM are:
- Carlos Arteaga, MD, Dallas-based Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
- Nina Bhardwaj, MD, PhD, New York City-based Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- Stephen Chanock, MD, Bethesda, Md.-based National Cancer Institute
- George Coukos, MD, PhD, Switzerland-based Lausanne University Hospital, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research Lausanne Branch
- Lisa Coussens, PhD, Portland, Ore.-based Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health & Science University
- Silvia Formenti, MD, New York City-based Weill Cornell Medicine, New York-Presbyterian Hospital
- Nola Hylton, PhD, University of California, San Francisco
- Peter Anthony Jones, PhD, Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Van Andel Institute
- Massimo Loda, MD, New York City-based Weill Cornell Medicine, Boston-based Harvard Medical School, United Kingdom-based University of Oxford-Lincoln College
- Funda Meric-Bernstam, MD, Houston-based The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
- David Pellman, MD, Boston-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School
- Alexis Thompson, MD, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
- E. John Wherry III, PhD, Philadelphia-based Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
- Matthew Vander Heiden, MD, PhD, Cambridge, Mass.-based Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology