Tuveson, an AACR member since 2003, is currently serving as a member of the AACR Board of Directors and is a scientific editor of the AACR journal Cancer Discovery. Among his other contributions to the AACR, he previously served as vice chair for the AACR Annual Meeting Program Committee from 2018-2019; chair of the Pezcoller Foundation-AACR International Award for Cancer Research Committee in 2019; chair of the Plenary Session for the Special Conference, “Pancreatic Cancer: Advances in Science and Clinical Care” in 2016; cochair of the Special Conference, “Pancreatic Cancer: Innovations in Research and Treatment” in 2014; cochair of the Program Committee for the AACR International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research in 2008; and cochair of the Mentored Grants and Research Fellowships Committee in 2008. He has also served as a member on multiple AACR committees, including the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network-AACR Innovative Grants Scientific Review Committee (2008—2010); the Program Committee (2008) and Scientific Review Committee (2007) for the AACR International Conference on Molecular Diagnostics in Cancer Therapeutic Development; and the Annual Meeting Education Committee (2006 and 2011). In addition, Tuveson has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for Stand Up To Cancer since 2012. The AACR is the Scientific Partner of Stand Up To Cancer.
Tuveson was elected to the 2020 class of Fellows of the AACR Academy. He has been recognized with a host of other honors and awards throughout his career, including the Hamdan Award for Medical Research, Excellence – Pancreatic Diseases (2016), the Jan Waldenstrom Medal from the Swedish Society of Oncology (2014), the Ruth C. Brusky Award for Excellence in Clinical Research on Pancreatic Cancer, PancreasFest (2010), the Norbert and Suzanne Schnog Lectureship for Yale University (2005), the Frank Brooks Memorial Lectureship for the American Pancreatic Association (2004), the Rita Allen Foundation Scholar Award (2003), the AACR-PanCAN Career Development Award in pancreatic cancer research (2003), and the Forbeck Scholar Award from the William Guy Forbeck Research Foundation (2000). He is also an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (2016) and was a recipient of the Physician-Scientist Early Career Award from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (1999).
Tuveson received his doctoral and medical degrees from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1994. He completed his residency in internal medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 1997, and completed a fellowship in hematology and oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Cancer Center in 2000. Tuveson was a postdoctoral fellow at MIT from 1997 to 2002.
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