© 1999 by Oxford University Press
Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 91, No. 2, 117-118,
January 20, 1999
© 1999 Oxford University Press
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Awards, Appointments, Announcements
President Bill Clinton recently named nine scientists to receive the National Medal of Science, the nation's highest scientific honor. Among them were two cancer researchers.Bruce N. Ames, Ph.D., of the University of California at Berkeley, was named for his studies on mutation, cancer and aging. Janet D. Rowley, M.D., of the University of Chicago, was named for her discovery of chromosomal translocations in cancer.
The National Medal of Science recognizes achievements in physical, biological, mathematical, engineering, social, and behavioral sciences. It has been awarded to 362 individuals since 1962.
Steck Honored
The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, announced that Peter Steck, Ph.D., was named the 1998 recipient of the Julie and Ben Rogers Award for Excellence in Research. The award includes a $10,000 cash gift.
Steck's team discovered a tumor-suppressor gene (MMAC1) involved in the progression of the most common and fatal form of brain cancer. The gene also has been implicated in other cancers, including prostate and breast cancers, and melanoma.
Immunomedics Science Award
The Garden State Cancer Center, Belleville, N.J., announced that David A. Goodwin, M.D., and Claude F. Meares, Ph.D., received the second Immunomedics Science Award during a recent scientific meeting.
The award was established by Immunomedics, Inc., Morris Plains, N.J., to recognize scientists who have made contributions to cancer diagnosis and therapy with targeted agents. Goodwin is professor of radiology at Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif., and Meares is professor and chairman of chemistry at the University of California, Davis.
Koprowski Professorship
The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, named Giorgio Trinchieri, M.D., as the first to hold the Hilary Koprowski Endowed Professorship, established in 1998 to honor the man who was Wistar's director from 1957 until 1991.
Trinchieri has been head of Wistar's Immunology Program for 7 years. He has been at the institute for 23 years.
Boman Appointed
Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, appointed Bruce M. Boman, M.D., Ph.D., as director of the new Division of Medical Oncology and Medical Genetics in its Department of Medicine, and as the Robert L. Capizzi Professor of Medicine.
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Boman had been at Creighton University, Omaha, where he had been founding director of its Cancer Center, and at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, where he was director for cancer research and hereditary tumors at the Storz Cancer Institute.
RPCI Names Executive
The Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, appointed Virginia Opipare as senior vice president for administration and finance. She will oversee administration of the hospital and clinics, research, academic programs, and outreach activities.
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Opipare had been administrator of the University of Texas Medical Branch Hospitals, Galveston, and chief operating officer of the UTMB.
Podoloff Elected
The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, announced that Donald A. Podoloff, M.D., was elected president-elect of the American College of Nuclear Physicians.
He is chairman of M. D. Anderson's Department of Nuclear Medicine. He assumes the elected position Feb. 1, and becomes president of the college in February 2000.
Fox Chase Names Torosian
The Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, named Michael H. Torosian, M.D., as attending surgeon and clinical director for breast-surgery research. He had been an attending surgeon at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
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Torosian plans to expand the Breast Evaluation Center at Fox Chase to provide services related to benign breast diseases.
NCI Management Appointment
The National Cancer Institute named Kathleen Sybert, Ph.D., as chief of its Technology Development and Commercialization Branch, which manages intellectual property for NCI and NCI's industrial and academic partnerships. She has been a member of the branch for 8 years.
Sybert is also vice-chair of the National Institutes of Health Technology Development Coordinators.
Procept Names Rulewski
Procept, Inc., Cambridge, Mass., named Nigel J. Rulewski, M.D., as chief medical officer, a new position. He had been vice president for medical affairs and chief medical officer of Astra USA.
Procept is a biopharmaceutical company with a focus on developing anti-infective and immunosuppressant drugs.
Cell Biology Director
Human Genome Sciences, Inc., Rockville, Md., announced the appointment of Judith G. Giri, Ph.D., as director of cell biology. She had been a group leader in the Research and Development Department of Searle, a division of Monsanto Co.
Human Genome Sciences develops products, based on its discovery and understanding of human and microbial genes, to predict, prevent, detect, treat, and cure disease, the announcement said.
EACR Elects Secretary General
The European Association of Cancer Research, meeting in Stockholm in 1998, appointed a new executive committee, including a new secretary general.
Helga Ögmundsdóttir, M.D., Ph.D., is the new secretary general. Other members of the executive committee are Ruggero Montesano, M.D., Ph.D., president; Edith Olah, Ph.D., D.Sc.,president-elect; Jan Ponten, M.D.,past president; Klaus Schlaefer, Ph.D.,treasurer; and Valerie Beral, M.B., Jan Bubenik, M.D., D.Sc., Juan-Carlos Lacal, Ph.D., Giorgio Parmiani, M.D., and Mike Price, Ph.D., D.Sc., members.
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CSHL to Grant Degrees
The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., announced the establishment of a new School of Biological Sciences that will accept the first students in an "intensive, innovative" Ph.D. program in the fall of 1999, and make the laboratory a degree-granting institution for the first time in its 108-year history.
The new school received accreditation from the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York. Students will earn a doctoral degree within 4 to 4-½ years. The school is now actively recruiting students. For information, contact its web site at www.cshl.org/gradschool.
Genetics Curriculum
The American Society of Clinical Oncology, Alexandria, Va., announced that it has developed "the first ever comprehensive cancer genetics curriculum for medical professionals and their students."
ASCO said its new cancer genetics courses represent an extensive effort by the professional cancer community to formalize training for health care professionals of all types on how to understand, assess, and manage their patients' familial cancer risks.
Copies of the curriculum are available. Contact Rich Harrington at 617-739-8909, or visit ASCO's website (www.asco.org).
(Items in "Awards, Appointments, Announcements" are compiled from notices received by the News section. Not all notices are used; all those used are edited.)
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