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Journal of the National Cancer Institute Advance Access originally published online on January 29, 2008
JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2008 100(3):169; doi:10.1093/jnci/djm313
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NEWS

Awards, Appointments, Announcements

  • Edward J. Benz, Jr., M.D., the president and CEO of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, will receive a Mentor Award in Basic Science from the American Society of Hematology in recognition of his role in the training and career development of hematologists early in their careers.
  • Erik S. Knudsen, Ph.D., professor of cancer biology at Jefferson Medical College, has been named deputy director of research at Thomas Jefferson University's Kimmel Cancer Center in Philadelphia. Neal Flomenberg, M.D., interim chair and professor of medical oncology at Jefferson Medical College, has been named Kimmel Cancer Center's deputy director of clinical science.
  • The Margaret Q. Landenberger Research Foundation has established the Margaret Q. Landenberger Professorship in Breast Cancer Research at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson's Kimmel Cancer Center. Cell biologist Michael P. Lisanti, M.D., Ph.D., has been named the first Landenberger Professor.
  • The UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center is being renamed as the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer in honor of philanthropist Helen Diller and her family.
  • Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's Dolan DNA Learning Center has received a Science Education Partnership Award from the National Institutes of Health to fund a cancer education program for high school biology teachers.
  • Rosalie and Morton A. Cohen have contributed $1.5 million to University Hospitals in Cleveland to establish the first chair in lung cancer. Afshin Dowlati, M.D., lung cancer researcher, physician, and director of thoracic oncology at the University Hospitals Ireland Cancer Center, will be the first chairholder.
  • The National Cancer Institute has awarded two grants totaling $17 million to two Ohio State University cancer researchers—Michael A. Caligiuri, M.D., director of the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, received $10 million over five years to study the use of certain human immune cells with new drugs to treat leukemia and other cancers; and A. Douglas Kinghorn, Ph.D., D.Sc., professor and chair of Ohio State's College of Pharmacy, received $7 million for a five-year project that will look for new chemicals for chemotherapy drugs in tropical rainforest plants and fungi.
  • Setsuko K. Chambers, M.D., director of women's cancers for the Arizona Cancer Center and professor and director of gynecologic oncology for the University of Arizona, has been awarded the 2007 Senior Faculty Award from the UA Asian American Faculty, Staff and Alumni Association.
  • Aziza Shad, M.D., chief of the Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplantation at Georgetown University Medical Center's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, received the Penn State Alumni Fellow Award.
  • Lars Zender, M.D., a senior clinical postdoctoral fellow at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, was awarded a $40,000 grant for his research on the genetics and biology of liver cancer.


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