Earlier this month, we proudly welcomed the newest cohort of Damon Runyon Fellows! These 16 brilliant postdocs will receive four years of independent funding to advance their investigation of causes, treatments, and prevention strategies for all types of cancer. Read more: https://bit.ly/4nc25Hq

The recipient of the 2025 Damon Runyon-Jake Wetchler Award for Pediatric Innovation, recognizing work with great potential to impact pediatric cancers, is Pu Zheng, PhD, a Damon Runyon-Fayez Sarofim Fellow working on new technologies to visualize cancer cell behavior within its native environment.

Congratulations to the newest Damon Runyon Clinical Investigators! The five recipients of this prestigious award are exceptional early-career physician-scientists conducting patient-centered cancer research.

Congratulations to the newest Damon Runyon Quantitative Biology Fellows, five exceptional early-career scientists who are using state-of-the-art computational tools to bring cancer biology into high resolution!

After testing 1.2 billion (yes - with a b!) drug candidates, Damon Runyon Fellow Fangyu Liu, PhD, and her colleagues may have discovered a safer way to target CaSR, a protein that has been implicated in several cancers. Read more: www.damonrunyon.org/our-impact/n...

We are delighted to announce our most recent class of Damon Runyon Fellows! These 13 scientists will receive four years of independent funding to investigate cancer causes, mechanisms, therapies, and prevention. Read more: www.damonrunyon.org/news/entries...

Former Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator @tcellsrus.bsky.social is sending T cells into space to study the effects of microgravity on their function. His team’s findings may inform the development of new cancer immunotherapies right back here on Earth. Read more: bit.ly/3YSSYSn

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