© 1999 by Oxford University Press
Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 91, No. 24, 2078-2080,
December 15, 1999
© 1999 Oxford University Press
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Awards, Appointments, Announcements
The Cancer Research Foundation of America, Alexandria, Va., presented its 1999 Frontline Awards to Jo Ann H. Emerson, William Novelli, and Abigail Trafford to recognized their efforts in the "frontlines" of communication about general cancer prevention and about lung cancer prevention.Emerson (R-Mo.), a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, was recognized for her dedication to raising awareness of lung cancer. Novelli, president of the National Center for Tobacco Free Kids, was honored for focusing attention on tobacco use reduction in children. Trafford, the Washington Post health editor, was recognized for work to educate the public about cancer prevention including lung cancer.
Koch Prize
The Robert Koch Foundation, Bonn, Germany, presented the Robert Koch Prize to Ralph M. Steinman, Ph.D., Rockefeller University, New York, and the Robert Koch Gold Medal to Barry R. Bloom, Ph.D., of the Harvard University School of Public Health, Boston. In addition to medals, the recipients receive a prize of about $65,000.
Steinman was honored for his discovery of dendritic cells, and Bloom for his "first-ever" description of a cytokine that plays a key role in the tuberculin reaction.
The foundation awards its prize and medal annually to recognize outstanding achievements in basic research on infectious and other widespread diseases.
Distinguished Faculty Award
The University of Alabama Comprehensive Cancer Center, Birmingham, presented the first Cancer Center Distinguished Faculty Award to Seng-jaw Soong, Ph.D., professor of medicine and biostatistics at the center. The award is intended to recognize a faculty member who has made outstanding contributions to research.
Soong is "internationally known for his research on melanoma prognosis and mathematical modeling."
Rogers Award
The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, presented the 1999 Rogers Award for Excellence to Frank V. Fossella, M.D., deputy director of the Department of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology at the center. The award includes a $10,000 prize.
Fossella was honored for his contributions to patient care. "His compassion and patience in dealing with complex patient needs are exemplary. His clinical judgment is superb," said Robert C. Bast, Jr., M.D., head of Anderson's Division of Medicine.
Annual ACS Awards
The American Cancer Society recently presented its top award, the Medal of Honor, to Frederick P. Li, M.D., Lee Hartwell, Ph.D., and C. Everett Koop, M.D., Sc.D.
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Li, who has appointments at the Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School, and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, all in Boston, received the clinical research award for "his insightful research that identified the inherited susceptibility to cancer that marks some families and the Li-Fraumeni syndrome that bears his name."
Hartwell, president of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, received the basic research award "for his groundbreaking research into genetics, using yeast to examine the cell cycle and its complicated choreography of growth and division."
Koop, former U.S. Surgeon General, received the cancer control award "for more than 5 decades of dedication to improving and protecting the health of the American people and for his outspoken advocacy" about the need for stronger tobacco control policies, particularly for the young.
In addition, the society presented its Distinguished Service Awards to Howard K. Koh, M.D., the Massachusetts commissioner of public health; Marcia Grant, D.N.Sc., director of nursing research and education at City of Hope Cancer Center, Los Angeles; and Betty Ferrell, Ph.D., a research scientist at City of Hope Cancer Center.
The ACS Humanitarian Award went to James W. Hampton, M.D., clinical professor of medicine at the University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, for his work among American Indians and Alaskan Natives.
Baker, Brown Honored
The National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation, Washington, D.C., at its sixth annual awards ceremony, presented its award for best research article on general health care to Laurence C. Baker, Ph.D., Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif., and Martin Brown, Ph.D., of the National Cancer Institute.
Their paper, "Managed Care, Consolidation Among Health Care Providers, and Health Care: Evidence from Mammography," appeared in the RAND Journal of Economics (30:2 [Summer] 1999).
New ASTRO President
The American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology named David Hussey, M.D., professor of radiology at the University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, as president for a 1-year term.
As president, Hussey will manage the planning and implementation of ASTRO's next scientific meeting in October 2000. About 8,000 people are expected to attend.
HHMI Names Two
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Md., recently named David A. Clayton, Ph.D., as vice president for science development and Gerald M. Rubin, Ph.D., as vice president for biomedical research.
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Clayton, a senior scientific officer at HHMI since 1996, when he left Stanford University to join the institute, will lead new programs "to enhance molecular medicine and physician-scientist careers," according to Thomas R. Cech, Ph.D., president-designate of the institute. He also will be responsible for facilities and space for individual Hughes scientists and for shared resources, such as animal facilities.
Rubin, a Howard Hughes investigator at the University of California, Berkeley, will be responsible "for running national competitions for the selection of new Hughes investigators, as well as the review of investigators for reappointment," Cech said. Rubin also will help HHMI determine how it can make an impact in the fields of bioinformatics and computational biology.
Cech will succeed Purnell Choppin, M.D., as HHMI president Jan. 1.
ACS Elects Officers
The American Cancer Society recently elected Gerald L. Woolam, M.D., director of surgical oncology at the Joe Arrington Cancer Research and Treatment Center, Lubbock, Texas, as president, and John R. Kelly, Ph.D., director of the Navy Family Service Center, Gulfport, Miss., as chairman of the board.
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Woolam succeeds Charles J. McDonald, M.D., chairman of dermatology at Brown University, Providence, R.I. Kelly succeeds Francis L. Coolidge, a partner in a Boston law firm, Ropes & Gray, Attorneys at Law.
John C. Baity, senior partner in a New York based international law firm, became chairman-elect; H. Fred Mickelson, president of Coral Creek Consultants Inc., Newberg, Ore., became vice chairman; Robert C. Young, M.D. president of the Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, became first vice president; Andrew C. von Eschenbach, M.D., director of genitourinary cancers at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, became second vice president.
Adamson Appointed
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia named Peter C. Adamson, M.D., as chief of clinical pharmacology and therapeutics. Adamson had been an investigator with the U.S. National Cancer Institute's Pediatric Oncology Branch.
The announcement said that Adamson will take a leading role in the development of new drugs for children, and that he will continue his research in developing anti-cancer treatments for children.
Swain Appointed
Sandra M. Swain, M.D., was recently appointed deputy branch chief of the medicine branch of the Division of Clinical Sciences at the National Cancer Institute. Prior to receiving tenure at the National Institutes of Health, Swain served as medical director for Salick Health Care Inc. She is also the former director of the Comprehensive Breast Center at Georgetown University's Lombardi Cancer Research Center.
Temin Professorship Filled
The University of Wisconsin, Madison, named John Young, Ph.D., as the first Howard M. Temin Professor in Cancer Research. Young, who will be on the faculty of the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, has been a member of the faculty of the Department of Microbiology and Medical Genetics at Harvard Medical School, Boston.
The Wisconsin announcement said that the professorship was established "to recognize the profound contributions Howard Temin made to cancer research during his 35-year career at the McArdle Laboratory. He revolutionized scientific thought with his studies of avian viruses. He first hypothesized and then demonstrated that the life cycle of these viruses differ from that of all other organisms, reversing the flow of genetic information and copying RNA into DNA instead of DNA into RNA."
Temin's discovery, which earned him the 1975 Nobel Prize, led to the identification of human cancer genes, detection of HIV, and new tools of biotechnology, the announcement said. Temin died in 1994.
UW Graduate School Dean Virginia Hinshaw, Ph.D., said that Young is an outstanding selection for the position. McArdle Director Norman Drinkwater, Ph.D., said that Young "follows closely in the tradition of Howard Temin. He is a superb scientist with whom Howard would have loved to work."
(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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