Pancreatic Cancer research dream team selected

The Stand Up To Cancer-Cancer Research UK-Lustgarten Foundation Dream Team of top cancer researchers from the United States and the United Kingdom was named to launch a fresh attack on pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest forms of cancer on both sides of the Atlantic.
Daniel D. Von Hoff, MD, physician-in-chief and distinguished professor at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) in Phoenix, chief scientific officer at HonorHealth, and professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic, will lead the team, with Ronald M. Evans, PhD, professor and director of the Gene Expression Laboratory at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, and Gerard I. Evan, PhD, professor and chair of the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, as the co-leaders.
Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C), Cancer Research UK, and The Lustgarten Foundation selected the team and are providing $12 million in funding over three years.
Serving as principal investigators on the team are Christopher Heeschen, MD, PhD, lead, Center for Stem Cells in Cancer and Aging at the Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London; David Propper, MD, a consultant medical oncologist at Barts Cancer Institute and the London NHS Trust; and Joshua D. Rabinowitz, MD, PhD, professor of chemistry and integrative genomics at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey.
The team also includes more than two dozen other researchers based in the United States and the United Kingdom, and two advocates, Suzanne Berenger of England and Howard Young of the United States, both of whom are pancreatic cancer survivors.