© 2000 by Oxford University Press
Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 92, No. 6, 451,
March 15, 2000
© 2000 Oxford University Press
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Awards, Appointments, Announcements
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala has appointed four new members of the National Advisory General Medical Sciences Council.The new members are John N. Abelson, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, Pasadena; Jay C. Dunlap, Ph.D., Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, N.H.; D. Amy Trainor, Ph.D., Astra Zeneca Pharmaceuticals, Wilmington, Del.; and Richard M. Weinshilboum, M.D., Mayo Medical School, Rochester, Minn.
All members of the council serve 4-year terms. The council reviews applications for research and research training grants that have been assigned to the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. It also makes recommendations to the Department of Health and Human Services, the National Institutes of Health, and NIGMS.
ALCASE Names Directors
Betty Layne, D.D.S., and Nadine Jelsing have been named co-interim executive directors of the Alliance for Lung Cancer.
Layne worked as the national director of planning and Jelsing was the international director of planning prior to their appointments.
They take the place of Peggy McCarthy, who recently resigned her volunteer executive director position. She founded the organization in 1994, and she will remain active as a member of the Alliance for Lung Cancer Board of Directors.
Ruddon Named
Johnson & Johnson Corp., New Brunswick, N.J., has named Raymond W. Ruddon, M.D., Ph.D., as its corporate vice president of science and technology and chief scientific officer.
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Prior to joining Johnson & Johnson, Ruddon was the director of the Eppley Cancer Center at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, and the associate director of basic science research at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Ann Arbor. He also served as director of the Biological Markers Program at the National Cancer Institute-Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center, Frederick, Md.
Award Established
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, has established an award to honor Paul A. Marks, M.D., former president of the center.
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The Paul Marks Award for Excellence in Cancer Research and Care will be given every other year to a leader in the cancer field who has contributed to the understanding and care of the disease. An endowment of $2.4 million was contributed by members of Sloan-Kettering’s Boards of Overseers and Managers, and other friends of the center.
Society Changes Name
The Leukemia Society of America has changed its name to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
"We hope that the new name will help raise awareness about the dramatic rise in lymphoma rates during the last half of the 20th century, and more effectively portray the true breadth of our mission," said Dwayne Howell, president and chief executive officer of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
(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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