Nora Navone, M.D., Ph.D., professor, Genitourinary Medical Oncology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, who was affiliated with school’s program in Cancer Biology, died Dec. 15, 2023. She is remembered as an accomplished translational scientist who was a generous mentor and championed her teammates’ success. She was 70.

Her lab focused on the understanding of how prostate cancer interacts with bone metastases, and she developed a novel platform with a unique set of animal models that’s now used worldwide and accelerated prostate cancer research.