AACR honors Alan D’Andrea
The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) presented Alan D. D’Andrea, the Alvan T. and Viola D. Fuller American Cancer Society Professor of Radiation Oncology at Harvard Medical School and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, with the 52nd Annual AACR G.H.A. Clowes Memorial Award for his work in understanding cancer survival and progression, which has included milestones such as cloning a key protein involved in red blood cell production and discovering a family of proteins that help maintain DNA stability. The award, presented to D’Andrea at the AACR’s annual meeting in Chicago, recognizes a scientific odyssey that began with research into a rare pediatric cancer susceptibility syndrome — Fanconi anemia — and led to new insights into how cells repair their DNA and thereby ward off cancer. In his acceptance speech, D’Andrea remarked: “I am greatly honored to receive the 2012 G.H.A. Clowes Memorial Award from the AACR. Work from my laboratory has...