© 1999 by Oxford University Press
Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 91, No. 5, 412-413,
March 3, 1999
© 1999 Oxford University Press
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Awards, Appointments, Announcements
The Board of Trustees of the Association of Community Cancer Centers, Rockville, Md., announced that Leslie G. Ford, M.D., will receive its 1999 Clinical Research Award. It will be presented Sept. 24 during ACCC's 16th National Oncology Economics Conference.
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The award is given annually to a member of the oncology community who has made significant contributions to the field of oncology research. Ford is associate director for clinical research in the National Cancer Institute's Division of Cancer Prevention.
Among other activities, her program sponsors the Breast Cancer Prevention Trial, the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial, and the soon to be launched Study of Tamoxifen and Raloxifene (STAR).
McDonnell Awards Millions
The McDonnell Foundation, St. Louis, recently made millionaires of 10 young researchers, including two who concentrate on human genetics. Each of the researchers received a $1 million research fellowship, awarded to their institutions.
Leonid Kruglyak, Ph.D., a statistical geneticist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, will use his million developing tools to tease out the genetic components of diseases such as cancer and heart disease.
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Wendy Bickmore, Ph.D., of the MRC Human Genetics Unit at Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland, is "carrying out important work on the scaffold/loop organization of human chromosomes, on the topology of genes located within loops, and on the relationship between loop structures and replication," the announcement said.
UPCI Names Deputy
The University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute named Candace Johnson, Ph.D., as deputy director for basic research, a position she has held in an interim capacity for the past year. Johnson is professor of pharmacology and medicine at Pitt's School of Medicine and co-director of UPCI's Experimental Therapeutics Program.
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Ronald B. Herberman, M.D., UPCI director, said Johnson was "instrumental in developing and facilitating close and extensive linkages between basic cancer researchers and clinical investigators" to accomplish translational research. He said that her "remarkable scientific achievements and impressive administrative capabilities clearly qualify her" for the post.
Center Director Named
The University of Cincinnati (Ohio) Medical Center announced that Kenneth A. Foon, M.D., will be director of the Barrett Cancer Center at the University Hospital and professor of medicine in the UC College of Medicine.
For 6 years Foon has been director of the Lucille Parker Markey Cancer Center and chief of the Division of Hematology and Oncology at the University of Kentucky, Lexington. The Barrett center is about 10 years old.
Stat Bite Clarification
The text of the Dec. 16, 1998, Stat Bite, titled Age Distribution of U.S. Testicular and Cervical Cancer Incidence, should read: While cancer is primarily a disease of aging, testicular and cervical cancer are exceptions. The median age for all cancers combined is age 68 compared to age 33 for testicular cancer and age 47 for cervical cancer. The age distribution shows that the largest percentage of patients are diagnosed between ages 20 to 34 for testicular cancer and between ages 35 and 44 for cervical cancer.
European Correspondent
Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K., announced that Sabine Steimle will serve as European correspondent for this journal's News section during the next year. For the past year, Steimle has been director of communications for the European Organization for the Research and Treatment of Cancer, Brussels.
Steimle, who has written occasionally for the News in the past, served as a fellow in the Mass Media Branch of the U.S. National Cancer Institute's Office of Cancer Communications in 1997 and earlier was press and public relations officer for the German Cancer Society in Frankfurt. She also has worked as a free-lance journalist.
Her addition to the Journal's News team is intended to expand news coverage across Europe. Communications intended for Steimle should be sent initially to the News editor, J. Paul Van Nevel (fax: 301-402-4945; e-mail: nevelp{at}occ.nci.nih.gov).
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