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Frank McCormick

RAS biologist who founded Onyx Pharmaceuticals and led the NCI's national effort to drug RAS.

Molecular biologist who worked on RAS signalling for four decades, founded Onyx (sorafenib, carfilzomib origins), and served as scientific lead of the NCI RAS Initiative at Frederick National Laboratory.

Role
Professor, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center; former Scientific Lead, NCI RAS Initiative
Specialisms
RAS biologySignal transductionDrug discovery

Papers

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TitleJournalYear
KRAS as a Therapeutic TargetClinical Cancer Research2015
Sticking it to KRAS: Covalent Inhibitors Enter the ClinicCancer Cell2020

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