Elizabeth McKenna: The August issue of Cancer Discovery is now online

Elizabeth McKenna shared a post on X:

“The August issue of Cancer Discovery is now online! The cover features work by Federica Pecci, Seshiru Nakazawa, Pasi Janne, Mark Awad and colleagues showing that activating point mutations in MET are actionable in lung cancer – read that and more here.”

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Elizabeth McKenna is the Executive Director of Cancer Discovery at the American Association for Cancer Research. Elizabeth earned her PhD from Harvard University and trained with Dr. Charles Roberts at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Her research was among the first to show that pediatric tumors characterized by mutations in chromatin remodelers are genomically stable and instead driven by epigenetic deregulation of key target genes. She joined Cancer Discovery shortly after its launch as its founding Science Writer and became an editor in 2014, rising through the editorial ranks to become the journal’s Executive Editor in 2019. She is a member of the 40 Under 40 in Cancer Class of 2021.