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The celebration featured an open-air reading of Anna Karenina (all 816 pages) in downtown Iowa City over four days with dozens of participants.
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The word cancer first entered Dr. Barker’s vocabulary when she was a child. “I’ve seen cancer up close and personal since I was 12 years old,” she said. Watching her grandparents, parents, and sister face cancer diagnoses fueled her interest in wanting to understand what makes normal cells turn into cancer cells and metastasize to other parts of th...
Dr. Barker has not only built networks among scientists from different disciplines. She has also forged connections between patients and researchers as chair of the AACR Scientist↔Survivor Program (SSP), which she founded in 1999 while serving on the AACR Board of Directors. This novel initiative provides a unique opportunity for cancer survivors a...
Dr. Barker has received numerous awards throughout her career. Her rock-star status was solidified when Rolling Stonenamed her to its 2009 list of “The 100 People Changing America.” The same year, she became the third person to receive the AACR Margaret Foti Award for Leadership and Extraordinary Achievements in Cancer Research, which was establish...
Dr. Anna D. Barker is a prominent cancer researcher and leader who has initiated and led several landmark programs and initiatives, such as The Cancer Genome Atlas and the AACR Scientist↔Survivor Program. She is currently the chief strategy officer at the Ellison Institute and a member of the National Cancer Advisory Board.
Mar 28, 2016 · Anna Barker, PhD, is a professor of Life Sciences at Arizona State University and a former deputy director of the National Cancer Institute. She chairs the AACR Scientist↔Survivor Program, which connects cancer survivors/advocates with cancer researchers and educates both communities.
Anna Barker is the Chief Strategy Officer at the Ellison Institute, where she is building networks of leading experts in medicine, science and engineering, that will help the Institute advance scientific discoveries and innovations that solve complex problems in cancer and other diseases.
Anna Barker is a co-founder of The Cancer Genome Atlas and a leader in cancer precision medicine and systems science. She is a fellow of the AACR Academy, a prestigious honor for outstanding contributions to cancer research and education.
Professor Anna Barker guides the exploration of timeless classics - such as the Epic of Gilgamesh, Paradise Lost, Les Misérables, War and Peace, and Brothers Karamazov - at the intersection of literature, history, and culture.
