"The most difficult time in the career of a beginning young scientist is the first few years. One has no 'track record' just when the need for money to hire a technician to help with experiments, to buy supplies and equipment, is the greatest. Supporting such an individual is risky; one cannot be assured of success! During the past fifty years, beginning with Maurice Goldblatt, the Cancer Research Foundation has been willing to bet on promising young scientists, to take risks. The measure of the Foundation's phenomenal success is the high quality and continued productivity of the scientists who they have helped to develop and now to flourish. They have provided an enduring legacy of talent for cancer research in America."

Janet D. Rowley, M.D.
Professor, Departments of Medicine and Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology and Human Genetics
University of Chicago

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N P R S T U W Y Z

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Stephen P. Ackland, M.D.
Stephen A. Adam, Ph.D.
Erin Adams, Ph.D.
Kan Agarwal, M.D.
Barry G. W. Arnason, M.D.
Judith Austin, Ph.D.

B
Kevin Barton, M.D.
Charles L. Baum, M.D.
Robert S. Becker, Ph.D.
Mark P. Birkenbach, M.D.
Douglas Bishop, Ph.D.
Christopher A. Bradfield, Ph.D.
Thomas A. Brasitus, M.D.
Bernard Brownstein, Ph.D.
Janis K. Burkhardt, Ph.D.

C
Settara Chandrasekharappa, Ph.D.
Chawnshang Chang, Ph.D.
Eugene B. Chang, M.D.
Bohao Chen, M.D., M.S.
Gerald Chodak, M.D.
Oscar R. Colamonici, M.D.
Carl C. Correll, Ph.D.
Robert G. Croy, Ph.D.
John Cunningham, M.D.

D
Christopher Daugherty, M.D.
Nicholas O. Davidson, M.D.
Alan M. Diamond, Ph.D.
Pamela S. Diaz, M.D.
Jerome I. Dickstein, M.D., Ph.D.
Robert Doebele, M.D., Ph.D.
Peter H. Domer, M.D.
Wei Du, M.D., Ph.D.

E
Warren E. Enker, M.D.
Ediz Ezdinli, M.D.

F
Olufunmilayo Falusi-Olopade, M.D.
Michael Feldman, Ph.D.
John J. Fennessy, M.B.
Edwin L. Ferguson, Jr., Ph.D.
Frank Fitch, M.D., Ph.D.
Wilbur A. Franklin, M.D.
Guido Franzoso, M.D., Ph.D.
Elaine V. Fuchs, Ph.D.

G
Haim Gamliel, Ph.D.
Robert E. Geller, M.D.
Benjamin Glick, Ph.D.
Harvey M. Golomb, M.D.
Daniel E. Gottschling, Ph.D.
J. Eric Gouaux, Ph.D.
Michael N. Gould, Ph.D.
Helmut Grasberger, M.D.
Jose Guevara-Patino, M.D. Ph.D.

H
Stephen B. Hanauer, M.D.
Alexander Hantel, M.D.
Paul V. Harper, M.D.
Nissim Hay, Ph.D.
Javad Hekmatpanah, M.D.
Arthur L. Herbst, M.D.
Mark W. Hochstrasser, Ph.D.
John A. Holt, Ph.D.
Laurie Hudson, Ph.D.
Charles B. Huggins, M.D., Nobel Laureate
Robert O. Hunter, M.D., Ph.D.

I
Anand P. Iyer, Ph.D.
Lalitha Iyer, Ph.D.

J
Elwood V. Jensen, Ph.D.
Richard Jones, Ph.D.
Loren Joseph, M.D.
Sheila M. Judge, Ph.D.

K
Edwin L. Kaplan, M.D.
David Karlin, M.D.
Karen Kaul, M.D., Ph.D.
Elliott Kieff, M.D., Ph.D.
Joseph B. Kirsner, M.D., Ph.D.
Eric Kodish, M.D.
Heinz Kohler, M.D., Ph.D.
David Kovar, Ph.D.
Stephen J. Kron, M.D., Ph.D.

L
Bret A. Lashner, M.D.
Michelle M. LeBeau, Ph.D.
Bernard Levin, M.D.
David N. Levin, M.D., Ph.D.
Wei Li, Ph.D.
Albert B. Lorincz, M.D.
John R. Lurain, M.D.

M
Angus M. MacNicol, Ph.D.
Mark Q. Martindale, Ph.D.
Robert McCarroll, Ph.D.
Michael McClelland, Ph.D.
Fabrizio Michelassi, M.D.
Andy Minn, M.D., Ph.D.
Richard L. Moldwin, M.D., Ph.D.
A. R. Moossa, M.D.
Alex O. Morla, Ph.D.
Paul R. Mueller, Ph.D.
Louis J. Muglia, M.D., Ph.D.
J. Cameron Muir, M.D.

N
Frank W. Newell, M.D.

P
Tao Pan, Ph.D.
Xiaochuan Pan, Ph.D.
Sandra Panem, Ph.D.
Blasé Polite, M.D. MPP
Michael Press, M.D.

R
Janardan K. Reddy, M.D.
Carrie Rinker-Schaeffer, Ph.D.
Bernard Roizman, Sc.D.
Iris Romero, M.D. M.S.
Jacob Rotmensch, M.D.
Janet Rowley, M.D.
Jonathan Rubin, M.D., Ph.D.
Daniel B. Rukstalis, M.D.

S
Edgar F. Salazar-Grueso, M.D.
Andrea Sant, Ph.D.
Richard L. Schilsky, M.D.
Harry W. Schoenberg, M.D.
Jeffrey L. Schwartz, Ph.D.
Nava Segev, Ph.D.
Tanquy Seiwert, M.D.
James A. Shapiro, Ph.D.
Mark Siegler, M.D.
M. Celeste Simon, Ph.D.
Michael A. Simon, M.D.
Patrick A. Singleton, Ph.D.
Michael D. Sitrin, M.D.
Dennis J. Slamon, M.D., Ph.D.
Tobin R. Sosnick, Ph.D.
Walter M. Stadler, M.D.
V. William Steward, M.D.
Angela Stoddart, Ph.D.

T
Fuyuhiko Tamanoi, Ph.D.
Wei-Jen Tang, Ph.D.
Thomas C. Terwilliger, Ph.D
Michael J. Thirman, M.D..
Aaron Turkewitz, Ph.D.

U
John Ultmann, M.D.

W
Chyung-Ru Wang, Ph.D.
Qianfei “Jeffery” Wang, Ph.D.
Michael D. Weil, M.D.
Michael A. Weiss, M.D., Ph.D.
Carol Westbrook, M.D., Ph.D.
George L. Wied, M.D., Ph.D.
Kent Wilcox, Ph.D.
H. Guy Williams-Ashman, Ph.D.
Ting-Wa Wong, M.D., Ph.D.

Y
M. Lisa Yaremko, M.D.

Z
Frederick Zuspan, M.D.

Without question, one of the great stars in cancer research was Charles B. Huggins, M.D., Nobel Laureate. The Cancer Research Foundation supported Dr. Huggins' research for many years. The former William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago Medical Center, Dr. Huggins was a member of the original faculty that opened the University of Chicago Medical School in 1951. Dr. Huggins' research there led to his receipt of the 1966 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discoveries concerning hormonal treatment of prostate cancer.

Janet Rowley, M.D. professor of medicine and molecular genetics and cell biology at the University of Chicago Medical Center, studies chromosomes in patients with leukemia. She discovered two new chromosome abnormalities in 1973. The Cancer Research Foundation awarded Dr. Rowley a two-year $50,000 grant to expand her studies. This involvement helped Dr. Rowley obtain a National Institute of Health grant for a major program project involving another dozen scientists with a budget of almost $1 million per year. In September, 1998, Dr. Rowley received the Albert Lasker Clinical Medicine Research Prize, the most distinguished American honor for clinical medical research. In April, 1999, Dr. Janet Rowley received the National Medal of Science, the nation's highest scientific honor, at a White House ceremony.

Olufunmilayo Olopade, M.D., associate professor of medicine at the University of Chicago Medical Center, received $31,000 in 1991 to study cells which cause cancer. This research led to a three-year $412,000 cancer research fellowship from the James S. McDonnell Foundation. Dr. Olopade's work focuses primarily on identifying the operations of a "tumor-suppressor gene" that is often found to be missing in several types of malignant cells. As director of the Cancer Risk Clinic at the University of Chicago Medical Center, Dr. Olopade speeds the transfer of genetics research to clinical application. This unusual clinic develops strategies to detect and prevent cancer in patients with a family history or genetic predisposition to the disease by combining extensive family studies with DNA testing.