Posted: February 2018
John V. Heymach, MD, PhD, has been named a Fellow (Medical Sciences) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Dr. Heymach is the Chair of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology and a Professor in the Departments of Thoracic Head and Neck Medical Oncology and Cancer Biology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. He also serves as leader of the Lung Cancer Program of the Cancer Center Support Grant and co-leads the MD Anderson Lung Cancer Moon Shot Program. He is a past recipient of the Damon Runyon Clinical Investigator Award, the Wilson Stone Award for Basic Science Research, and the Emil J. Frei Award for Translational Research.