In Memoriam

We offer our deepest condolences to the family, friends, and colleagues of all of the AACR members who passed away in 2025, including the following members whose deaths were reported to the AACR:

• James Watson, PhD, FAACR, an AACR member since 1972 and a member of the inaugural class of Fellows of the AACR Academy who shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology for the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, died November 6; he was 97 years old.
• Hamilton O. Smith, MD, FAACR, a Fellow of the AACR Academy who shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology in 1978 for the discovery of enzymes that serve as “scissors” for reliably cutting DNA, died October 25 at the age of 94.
• Sir John B. Gurdon, DPhil, FAACR, a member of the inaugural class of Fellows of the AACR Academy who shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2012 for his discovery that mature adult cells can be reprogrammed to a pluripotent state, died October 7; he was 92 years old.
• Malcolm A.S. Moore, DPhil, an emeritus member of the Cell Biology Program in the Sloan Kettering Institute in New York and a member of the AACR since 1981, died September 23 at the age of 81.
• David Baltimore, PhD, FAACR, a member of the inaugural class of Fellows of the AACR Academy whose insights reshaped cancer research and biomedical science, died on September 6 at the age of 87.
• Bonnie Addario, a lung cancer survivor and AACR member since 2012 who founded two organizations to support patients and foster research on the disease, died August 25; she was 77 years old.
• Harvey M. Golomb, MD, retired professor and former chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of Chicago, and a member of the AACR since 1978, died August 20 at the age of 82.
• Thomas W. Kensler, PhD, an AACR member since 1979 and a trailblazer in cancer prevention who was among the first to conduct Westernized human clinical trials in China, died July 11 at the age of 76.
• Thomas M. Mack, MD, a professor of preventive medicine and pathology at the University of Southern California and a member of the AACR since 2001, died June 22; he was 89 years old.
• Susanne M. Gollin, PhD, professor emerita of human genetics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health and a member of the AACR since 1991, died April 6 at the age of 71.
• Eva Klein, MD, PhD, FAACR, a pioneer in cancer immunology and virology who was a member of the inaugural class of Fellows of the AACR Academy, died January 19 at the age of 99.
• Masaaki Tamura, DVM, PhD, an AACR member since 2002 and a professor at Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine for 20 years, died January 16 at the age of 75.

Complete obituaries for these AACR members are available in the In Memoriam section of the AACR website.