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Timothy Ley, MD, received the Association of American Cancer institutes’ AACI Distinguished Scientist Award.

The award recognizes extraordinary scientific accomplishments and contributions to cancer research. Prior to the presentation, Ley delivered a talk about his recent research into acute myeloid leukemia.

Ley, the Lewis T. and Rosalind B. Apple chair in oncology at Washington University in St. Louis, serves as director of the stem cell biology section in the department of medicine and associate director of The Genome Institute. He is a member of Siteman Cancer Center, and he is past president of the American Society for Clinical Investigation.

Ley led a team at Washington University in St. Louis that sequenced the first human cancer genomes, and he is principal investigator on a 5-year, $14.3 million NIH grant related to leukemia research.