© 2000 by Oxford University Press
Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 92, No. 13, 1040-1041,
July 5, 2000
© 2000 Oxford University Press
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Awards, Appointments, Announcements
Barnett S. Kramer, M.D., editor-in-chief of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, has been appointed director of the Office of Medical Applications of Research at the National Institutes of Health.
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A component of the NIH Office of Disease Prevention, OMAR is the focal point for NIH efforts to translate the results of biomedical research into knowledge that can be used effectively in the delivery of health services. A major responsibility of OMAR is the coordination and management of the NIH Consensus Development Program. Under this program, OMAR organizes major conferences on controversial public health issues.
Prior to his appointment, Kramer was the deputy director of the Division of Cancer Prevention at the National Cancer Institute. He is also a clinical professor in the department of medicine of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md.
Andejeski Appointed
Yvonne Andejeski, M.D., has been appointed senior consultant for consumer outreach at the National Cancer Institute.
Andejeski is a board-certified radiation oncologist at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and serves as a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army. She is an active member of several cooperative groups and has served as a radiation oncology co-investigator on several pediatric trials.
At NCI, Andejeski will be working with the Office of Liaison Activities, where she will provide programmatic assistance to, and oversight of, continuing and new projects. Included in these projects are efforts aimed at increasing public access to information and facilitating consumer inclusion throughout the NCI.
Koski Named to OHRP
Edward Greg Koski, Ph.D., M.D., will serve as the first director of the Office for Human Research Protections, a new office at the Department of Health and Human Services.
The new office will be at the HHS department level, in the office of the Assistant Secretary for Health. It replaces the Office for Protection from Research Risks, which was part of the National Institutes of Health and had authority over NIH-funded research.
The new office will also provide leadership for all 17 federal agencies that carry out research involving human subjects under a regulation known as the Common Rule. The new OHRP will focus entirely on protection for human subjects, while treatment for animal subjects will be overseen separately by a new Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare at NIH. The OPRR had been responsible for both human and animal subjects.
Koski is director of human research affairs at Partners HealthCare System Inc., Boston, and associate professor of anesthesia at Harvard Medical School.
Sharp Appointed NCAB Chair
President Clinton appointed Phillip A. Sharp, Ph.D., to serve as chair of the National Cancer Advisory Board.
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Sharp has been a member of the NCAB since 1996. He joined the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1974 and served as head of the MIT Department of Biology from 1991 to 1999. His research is focused on the molecular biology of tumor viruses and the mechanisms of RNA splicing. In 1993 he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery that genes contain nonsense segments edited out by cells in the course of utilizing genetic information.
Bravo Named
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences at the National Institutes of Health has appointed Norka Ruiz Bravo, Ph.D., associate director for extramural activities.
Bravo came to NIH in 1990 as a scientific review administrator in the NIGMS Office of Scientific Review. Since then, she has served as program director in the NIGMS Division of Genetics and Developmental Biology, deputy director in the Division of Cancer Biology at NCI, and deputy associate director of the Division of Extramural Activities at NIGMS.
Cheng Honored
Shi-Yuan Cheng, Ph.D., has been named a 2000 Kimmel Scholar by the Sidney Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research.
Cheng is an assistant professor of pathology at the University of Pittsburgh. The award will provide Cheng with $200,000 over 2 years for his research on the molecular mechanisms of tumor angiogenesis in brain tumors.
Prevention Fellowship
The National Cancer Institute is accepting applications for its Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program.
The program offers an opportunity for doctors and scientists to train in the field of cancer prevention and control. Fellows may obtain Master of Public Health training at an accredited university during the first year of their fellowship, which is followed by independent research assignments in cancer prevention and control at NCI’s Bethesda, Rockville, and Frederick, Md., facilities.
The minimum length of the program is 3 years and does not extend beyond 5 years. Applications are due Sept. 1, 2000, for entry into the program July 1, 2001. For more information, contact Barbara Redding, 301-496-8640, br24v{at}nih.gov; or visit the Web site at http://dcp.nci.nih.gov/pob.
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