Professor
Douglas Hanahan
University of California, San Francisco
Biochemist; Educator
Area
Biological Sciences
Specialty
Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology
Elected
2007
Major contributions to cancer biology, introducing mouse models of cancer and synthesizing the concepts of the angiogenic switch and cancer as an aberrant organ with a set of six acquired capabilities that define the multistage nature of cancer development and what it takes to be a tumor.
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