Lung Cancer Researcher to Deliver Wachtel Lecture/CCR Grand Rounds

Photo:  Dr. Alvaro Quintanal-Villalonga

Dr. Alvaro Quintanal-Villalonga will receive this year’s AAAS Martin and Rose Wachtel Cancer Research Award, which honors outstanding early-career investigators in cancer research.

The award will be presented following his lecture, an NCI Center for Cancer Research (CCR) Grand Rounds titled, “Understanding Plasticity as a Mechanism of Resistance to Therapy in Cancer,” on Friday, Aug. 16, from noon to 1:15 p.m. ET in Lipsett Amphitheater. For in-person attendees, there will be a lunch reception following the lecture in the FAES Terrace.

Quintanal-Villalonga, a lung cancer researcher, is assistant attending biologist and lab co-director, department of medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He specializes in small cell lung carcinomas and resistance to targeted therapy.

This is the 10th lecture for the award, sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Science Translational Medicine. The award winner’s essay will be published in Science Translational Medicine the week of the award ceremony.

To register for the lecture and for additional information, see: https://go.cancer.gov/4YOcK4b