The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) has announced the appointments of Dr. Raymond N. DuBois and Michael N. Pollak as Editors-in-chief of Cancer Prevention Research, effective July 1, 2018. Cancer Prevention Research is one of eight highly esteemed journals published by the AACR.
Devoted exclusively to cancer prevention, Cancer Prevention Research publishes original preclinical, clinical, and translational research on the biology of premalignancy, risk factors and risk assessment, early detection research, and chemopreventive interventions, including the basic science behind these areas. The journal was launched in 2008 with Scott Lippman as the founding editor-in-chief.
Pollak has served on the editorial board of Cancer Prevention Research since its inception. He holds the Alexander Goldfarb research chair in cancer research at McGill University in Montreal and directs the Division of Cancer Prevention of the Department of Oncology. Pollak is a medical oncologist at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal and is involved in clinical trials of novel agents related to growth factor targets. He directs a multi-disciplinary research program at the Lady Davis Research Institute, which investigates insulin and insulin growth factor physiology in relation to cancer, and provides specialised ELISA assays for epidemiologic and pharmaceutical collaborators.
DuBois is Past President of the AACR, Chairman and President of the AACR Foundation, a Fellow of the AACR Academy, and has served as a member of the AACR Board of Directors. In addition, he has served as an editorial board member of Clinical Cancer Research and as an associate editor of Cancer Research. Among other significant honours, he is a recipient of the Dorothy P. Landon-AACR Cancer Research Prize and the AACR-Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Cancer Research Award.
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