We are proud of our CCR awardees who represent a spectacular array of accomplishments.
Andrea B. Apolo, M.D.,
received the Arthur Flemming Award.
Melissa Bronez, M.P.A.,
received the HHS Secretary’s Award for Excellence in Management.
Terrence R. Burke Jr., Ph.D.,
received the Hillebrand Prize from the Chemical Society of Washington.
Sheue-yann Cheng, Ph.D.,
received the 2020 HHS Dr. Francisco S. Sy award for Excellence in Mentorship.
Peter L. Choyke, M.D., F.A.C.R.,
was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
Joseph Clara, M.D.,
received the SITC-Merck Cancer Immunotherapy Clinical Fellowship.
William L. Dahut, M.D.,
received the Georgetown University Founders Alumni Award.
Jeremy L. Davis, M.D.,
received the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine Alumni Society Early Career Achievement Award in Academics.
Stephanie L. Goff, M.D.,
received the 2020 NIH Clinical Center Staff Clinician of the Year and the Alan S. Rabson Award for Clinical Care.
James L. Gulley, M.D., Ph.D.,
received the SITC Collaborator Award.
Curtis C. Harris, M.D.,
received the Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society Award.
James N. Kochenderfer, M.D.,
was elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation and has been named a Top Ten Clinical Research Achievement Awardee by the Clinical Research Forum for “Development of CAR T-Cell Therapy for Myeloma.”
W. Marston Linehan, M.D.,
received the HHS Secretary’s Award for Meritorious Service.
Doug R. Lowy, M.D.,
received the AACR Distinguished Public Service Award.
Kathryn A. Lurain, M.D., M.P.H.,
received the ASH Clinical Research Training Institute Award.
Jordan L. Meier, Ph.D.,
received the 2021 Eli Lilly Award in Biological Chemistry.
Ruth Nussinov, Ph.D.,
was named a fellow to the American Physical Society.
Ira Pastan, M.D.,
received the HHS Secretary’s Award for Distinguished Service and the Paul A. Volcker Career Achievement SAMMIE.
Steven A. Rosenberg, M.D., Ph.D.,
received the 2020 AACR-CRI Lloyd J. Old Award in Cancer Immunology.
Samira M. Sadowski, M.D.,
received the 2020 American Association of Endocrine Surgeon Paul Lo Gerfo Award.
John T. Schiller, Ph.D.,
was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Louis M. Staudt, M.D., Ph.D.,
was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
Patricia S. Steeg, Ph.D.,
received the 2020 AACR-Women in Cancer Research Charlotte Friend Lectureship.
Kandice Tanner, Ph.D.,
was named a fellow to the American Physical Society.
Sue Wickner, Ph.D.,
received the ASM Award for Basic Research.
Ying E. Zhang, Ph.D.,
was inducted as a fellow to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
Group Awards
Christian S. Hinrichs, M.D., and Steven A. Rosenberg, M.D., Ph.D., received the FLC 2020 Excellence in Technology Transfer Award for “New, First-in-Class Immunotherapy, for Treatment of Recurrent, Metastatic Cervical Cancer.”
Mark R. Gilbert, M.D., Michael Pollack, Ph.D., and Jing Wu, M.D., Ph.D., received a 2020 Excellence in Technology Transfer Award for “Zotiraciclib, FDA and EMA Orphan Drug Designation for Glioma.”
Daniel Arango, Ph.D., and Melissa Fernandez, Ph.D., M.Sc., received the Dr. Eddie Méndez Scholar Award.
Scott Abrams, Ph.D., Clint T. Allen, M.D. (NIDCD), David Colcher, Ph.D., M.P.H., William L. Dahut, M.D., Renee N. Donahue, Ph.D., Sofia R. Gameiro, Ph.D., John W. Greiner, Ph.D., James L. Gulley, M.D., Ph.D., Duane H. Hamilton, Ph.D., Patricia H. Hand, Ph.D., Christopher R. Heery, M.D., James W. Hodge, Ph.D., M.B.A., Caroline Jochems Frohlich, M.D., Ph.D., Ravi A. Madan, M.D, Claudia M. Palena, Ph.D., Arun Rajan, M.D., Helen Sabzevari, Ph.D., Jeffrey Schlom, Ph.D., Julius Strauss, M.D., and Kwong Yok Tsang, Ph.D., were the CCR members who received the SITC Team Science Award.