On Friday, March 4th, Joan Massagué, PhD, Director of Sloan Kettering Institute and the Alfred P. Sloan Chair at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, was awarded the 2016 Pezcoller-AACR International Award for Cancer Research. He will be presented with this award in New Orleans at the AACR annual meeting, April 16-20.

Dr. Massagué is being recognized for his discoveries inTGF-β biology, now considered fundamental in the understanding of cellular physiology.

Massagué will present his lecture, “Latent Metastasis,” Sunday, April 17, 5:30 p.m. CT, in New Orleans Theater B of the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center.

“In recognizing the work of my research group, it is reassuring that the Pezcoller Foundation and AACR Award selection committee continue to value basic research for its ability to reveal the basis of clinical problems,” Massagué said.

The Pezcoller-AACR International Award for Cancer Research was established in 1997 and is presented each year to a scientist of international renown who has made a major scientific discovery in basic cancer research or has made major contributions to translational cancer research.