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Krantz Family Center for Cancer Research

The Krantz Family Center for Cancer Research is the scientific engine driving basic and translational research at the Mass General Brigham Cancer Institute.

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2025 Krantz Awards

The Krantz Awards were established to recognize the trailblazing efforts of Krantz Center scientists and accelerate projects with potential to make a fundamental impact on the way cancer is diagnosed and treated. The 2025 recipients reflect the Krantz Center’s fundamental commitment to making an outsized impact on the future of cancer care.

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2025 Quantum Award: Mario-CART cells to discover the best next-generation engineered T cell therapies for cancer patients. Team (left to right): Matthew Frigault, MD, Marcela Maus, MD, PhD and Robert Manguso, PhD.

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2025 Breakthrough Award: Targeting epithelial heterogeneity in liver cancer. Team (left to right): Andrea McClatchey, PhD and Nabeel Bardeesy, PhD.

photo of the 2025 Breakthrough Award team of Andrew Elia, MD, PhD, Daphne Haas-Kogan, MD, MBA and Debattama Sen, PhD.

2025 Breakthrough Award: Studying DNA repair to enhance cancer immunotherapy. Team (left to right): Andrew Elia, MD, PhD, Daphne Haas-Kogan, MD, MBA and Debattama Sen, PhD.

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2025 Breakthrough Award: Dissecting the role of H3K27 methylation in B cell oncogenesis using novel histone tools. Team (left to right): Peter van Galen, PhD, Konrad Hochedlinger, PhD and Hanno Hock, MD, PhD

Advancing Cancer Research

Our mission is to conduct fundamental basic and translational research on cancer, through a highly innovative, multidisciplinary and collaborative environment. We are committed to teaching and training the next generation of cancer researchers, within a multidisciplinary collegial and collaborative research community. Through scientific innovation, we strive for global impact on the treatment, early diagnosis and prevention of all forms of cancer.

Krantz Awards

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The goal of the Krantz Family Center for Cancer Research Awards is to support Krantz Center faculty in developing highly impactful cancer research projects.

Support our mission

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When you support the Krantz Family Center for Cancer Research you will help us harness the power of science and uncover new and more effective ways to fight cancer.

View our annual report

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Learn more about our research in our 2025 annual report.

"Fundamental research really is what drives these breakthroughs in clinical care that we’ve been seeing. It’s not just happening by magic. It’s happening because there’s amazing science."

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Daniel Haber MD, PhD

  • Director, Krantz Family Center for Cancer Research