Award-winning cancer research: from A to TME

With the rapid progress and high volume of cancer research, awards serve as a good way to keep in mind the foundations of the field and to cut through the noise to highlight the most critical developments in contemporary research. This year’s AACR 2025 (Chicago, IL, USA; 25–30 April), the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, did just this, to celebrate researchers who have been the driving force behind ground-breaking cancer research. From deconstructing the benign-to-malignant transition in colon cancer and exploring the intratumoral microbiome as a novel therapeutic target, to addressing disparities in lymphoma outcomes and...