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Awards, Appointments, Announcements
The American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology has selected three physicians and scientists to receive the society’s highest honor, the Gold Medal. The winners include Lester John Peters, M.D., of the Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute in Melbourne, Australia; J. Frank Wilson, M.D., of the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee; and Michael Goitein, Ph.D., of the Harvard Medical School in Boston. In addition, Fred Eilber, M.D., of the University of California School of Medicine in Los Angeles and LaSalle D. Leffall Jr., M.D., of Howard University in Washington, D.C., have been chosen to receive honorary memberships, the highest honor that the society gives to cancer researchers and leaders in disciplines other than radiation oncology, radiation physics, and radiobiology.
The Gold Medal and honorary memberships will be presented in October during the society’s annual meeting in Salt Lake City.
Five researchers have been named 2003 Distinguished Young Scholars by the W.M. Keck Foundation. This year’s scholars are Daniel T. Chiu, Ph.D., of the University of Washington, Seattle; Adrian Ferré-D’Amaré, Ph.D., of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle; F. Nina Papavasiliou, Ph.D., of Rockefeller University in New York; Kevin P. White, Ph.D., of Yale University in New Haven, Conn.; and Hongtao Yu, Ph.D., of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.
Pierre P. Massion, M.D., assistant professor of medicine at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, Tenn., has been awarded the Damon Runyon Research Foundation/Lilly Clinical Investigator Award. Massion will receive $200,000 annually for 5 years to support his research on new biomarkers for the early detection of lung cancer.
Lynn M. Matrisian, Ph.D., chair of cancer biology at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, has been named president-elect of the American Association of Cancer Research. She will begin her term as president in March 2004.
Harold Moses, M.D., director of the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, has been named president-elect of the Association of American Cancer Institutes. He will begin a 2-year term in October.
Annette Stanton, Ph.D., has been appointed to the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Research at the University of California at Los Angeles Jonsson Cancer Center. She was previously a professor at the University of Kansas, Lawrence.
The American Association for Cancer Research is accepting nominations for the AACR-National Foundation for Cancer Research Professorship in Basic Cancer Research. The AACR is also accepting nominations for its Annual Meeting Awards and Lectureships, given each year during the society’s annual meeting. The deadline for nominations is September 12, 2003. More information is available at http://www.aacr.org.
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