© 2001 by Oxford University Press
Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 93, No. 2, 94-95,
January 17, 2001
© 2001 Oxford University Press
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Awards, Appointments, Announcements
Lee Hartwell, Ph.D., president and director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, and professor of genetics at the University of Washington, received the 31st annual Leopold Griffuel Prize.
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The award of 700,000 French francs (valued at approximately $93,000), is sponsored by the French Association for Cancer Research. It is designed to reward the accomplishments of and encourage further research among the world’s leading cancer researchers.
Learning when and why the cell cycle goes awry—often leading to genetic errors and the uncontrolled growth that is characteristic of cancer—is the focus of Hartwell’s work.
Cowell Appointed
John K. Cowell, Ph.D., D.Sc., has been named chairman of the Department of Cancer Genetics at Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York.
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Cowell was previously the director of the Center for Molecular Genetics at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. He also had a joint appointment at the CCF Cancer Center and was a professor of clinical chemistry at Cleveland State University.
His research interests include molecular genetics of cancer and cancer predisposition; molecular analysis of neuroblastoma; molecular genetic changes in leukemia; and genetic analysis of brain tumors and breast cancer.
ACS Officers Announced
The American Cancer Society recently elected officers at its annual meeting in Chicago.
Dileep G. Bal, M.D., was elected president. Bal is chief of the Cancer Control Branch in the Department of Health Services in California. Bal is also clinical professor at the medical school of the University of California at Davis.
John C. Baity, a senior partner in the New York–based international law firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, was elected chairman of the board.
Elected president-elect was Robert C. Young, M.D., president of Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pa.
H. Fred Mickelson, of Newberg, Ore., was elected chairman-elect. Mickelson is president of Coral Creek Consultants Inc.
David M. Zacks, a litigator and health care lawyer in the Atlanta-based law firm Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP, was elected vice chairman.
Andrew W. von Eschenbach, M.D., was elected first vice-president. von Eschenbach is director of the Program Center–Genitourinary Cancer at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
Elected second vice-president was Mary Simmonds, M.D., a medical oncologist practicing with the Central Pennsylvania Hematology and Medical Oncology Associates.
Lay officers include treasurer Jean B. McGill of Tulsa, Okla., president of Noble Investments Inc.; and secretary Thomas G. Burish, Ph.D., of Nashville, Tenn., a professor at Vanderbilt University in the Department of Psychology and the Department of Medicine and provost of the university.
Funding Available
The National Brain Tumor Foundation has funding available for health professionals conducting research in the area of neuro-oncology and neuroscience. Grants range from $10,000 to $50,000 and are provided for adult and pediatric research, quality-of-life research, and complementary and alternative therapy research. For more information and an application visit the NBTF web site at http://www.braintumor.org. The deadline for applications is Feb. 16, 2001.
New Web Sites Launched
The National Cancer Institute has launched two new Web sites to make health information more accessible for researchers.
The NCI Research Resources Web site (http://cancer.gov/resources/) is a directory that includes listings of more than 100 products and services developed by NCI that are available to basic, clinical, and epidemiology researchers. The resources include tissue banks, repositories of chemicals and biologicals, genomic maps, drug molecule databases, statistics on cancer incidence, and analytic software.
Resources are grouped into 11 different categories, including Animal Resources; Clinical Trials; Drugs, Chemicals and Biologicals; Epidemiological Resources and Statistics; and Genomic Resources.
In an effort to improve the usefulness and accessibility of federal government health information on the Web, NCI launched Usability.gov (http://usability.gov). The site will serve primarily as an online resource for those involved in Web site design and management at NCI, the National Institutes of Health, and other government agencies.
Among the features of Usability.gov are methods and strategies for designing usable Web sites, usability guidelines, accessibility information, and links to other usability resources.
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