© 2002 by Oxford University Press
Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 94, No. 13, 970-971,
July 3, 2002
© 2002 Oxford University Press
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Awards, Appointments, Announcements
Five researchers have been honored with the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation Awards. Winners each presented a lecture at the National Institutes of Health in June and received a gold medal and a $250,000 prize.Brian Druker, M.D., professor of medicine and chair of leukemia research at the Oregon Health and Science University, in Portland, and Nicholas Lydon, Ph.D., vice president of Amgen Inc., were honored with the Charles F. Kettering Prize for their discovery and development of STI571 (Gleevec) for chronic myelogenous leukemia.
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Richard Peto, R.F.S, professor of medical statistics and epidemiology at Oxford University, was awarded the Charles S. Mott Prize for documenting the global hazards of smoking and the benefits of cessation, and for statistical analyses of information on breast cancer treatment.
John Sulston, Ph.D., of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, England, and Robert Waterston, M.D., Ph.D., head of the Department of Genetics and director of the Genome Sequencing Center at Washington University School of Medicine, were awarded the Alfred P. Sloan Jr. Prize for determining the first complete genome sequence of a multicellular organism.
Hicks Joins Ohio State
William J. Hicks, M.D., has joined the Ohio State University’s College of Medicine in Columbus. He will serve as director of outreach for the Division of Hematology/Oncology and co-director of diversity enhancement for the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Hicks has served on the attending staff at a number of area hospitals, including St. Ann’s and Riverside Methodist Hospitals and Grant Medical Center, where he was chairman of the internal medicine department.
Carcinogenesis Presents Awards
Two investigators will receive awards from the journal Carcinogenesis for their contributions to carcinogenesis research. The awards are sponsored by Oxford University Press and will be presented at the European Association for Cancer Research meeting in Granada, Spain.
Webster Cavanee, Ph.D., director of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and professor of medicine at the University of California at San Diego, will receive the Anthony Dipple Carcinogenesis Award. His research focuses on defining genetic lesions in human cancer. Cavanee is the immediate past president of the American Association for Cancer Research.
Stephen Jackson, Ph.D., deputy director and senior group leader at Wellcome/Cancer Research U.K. Institute, will receive the Carcinogenesis Young Investigator Award. His research focuses on determining how cells detect DNA damage and initiate DNA repair.
Appointments Made
President George W. Bush made two appointments to the President’s Cancer Panel. LaSalle D. Leffall, M.D., professor of surgery at Howard University School of Medicine, Washington, D.C., will serve as chairman of the panel for 1 year. Lance Armstrong, of Texas, was appointed to the panel for a 3-year term.
Fellowships Available
The Lymphoma Research Foundation is seeking applicants for 2-year $105,000 fellowships to pursue careers in basic, translational, and clinical research on lymphoma.
The focus of the training is to prepare clinicians to design and administer lymphoma clinical research and to take on the primary responsibilities for clinical trial design, protocol writing, Institutional Review Board (IRB) submission, conduct, analysis, and publication.
For more information or to download a copy of the application, visit http://www.lymphoma.org or e-mail: researchgrants{at}lymphoma.org. Applications are due Oct. 1.
James Fellowship Created
The American Cancer Society and The Ohio State University have created a fellowship in pain management and palliative care in honor of the late Arthur G. James, M.D., the founder of the Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute in Columbus, Ohio.
The fellowship program will accept one candidate per year for 3 years. Applicants will have completed a residency program in any one of several specialties, including anesthesiology, internal medicine, oncologic surgery and oncologic radiology.
For more information about the fellowship, please call 614-293-3737 or e-mail Gailiun.1{at}osu.edu.
Applications Being Accepted
The American Foundation for Urologic Disease/American Urological Association Research Scholar Program is now accepting applications for post-residency and post-doctoral research fellowships to begin in 2003.
Applications are now being accepted for the following programs: M.D. post-resident research program, Ph.D. post-doctoral research program, M.D./Ph.D. one-year research program, health policy research program, and the practicing urologist research program.
The deadline to apply is Sept. 1. For more information or to apply online, visit http://www.afud.org or call 410-468-1812.
Nominations Sought
The American Association for Cancer Research and the Cancer Research Foundation of America are seeking nominations for their new Award for Excellence in Cancer Prevention Research.
The winner of the award will present a lecture during the first AACR Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research Meeting in Boston. The winner will also receive a $5,000 honorarium and a commemorative plaque.
The nomination procedure and other details are available on the AACR Website at: http://www.aacr.org/1620.asp. Nominations are now being accepted by the AACR; the nomination deadline is Aug. 1.
Items in "Awards, Appointments, Announcements" are compiled from notices received by the News section. Not all notices are used; all are edited.
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