Dr. Riccardo Dalla-Favera received the AACR Award for Outstanding Achievement in Blood Cancer Research

AACR Announces Recipients of its 2023 Scientific Achievement Awards, Lectureships, and Prizes. All Awardees were recognized at the Annual Meeting 2023 in Orlando, Florida.

Riccardo Dalla-Favera, MD, FAACR received the AACR Award for Outstanding Achievement in Blood Cancer Research.

The American Association for Cancer Research Award recognizes an individual on the basis of their meritorious achievements and contributions to any aspect of blood cancer research.

Dalla-Favera, a Fellow of the AACR Academy, is director of the Institute for Cancer Genetics; the Percy and Joanne Uris Professor of Clinical Medicine; professor of pathology and cell biology, microbiology and immunology, and genetics and development; and member of the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at Columbia University. He is being recognized for his fundamental discoveries dedicated to characterizing the genetic drivers of human B-cell lymphomas and for uncovering new avenues for cancer prevention and therapy that have been routinely exploited clinically to diagnose and determine novel therapeutic strategies for B-cell lymphoma.