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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2003 95(18):1361;
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© 2003 Oxford University Press

NEWS

Awards, Appointments, Announcements

{blacksquare} Daniel D. Von Hoff, M.D., has been appointed director of the Arizona Health Sciences Center Cancer Therapeutics Program. Von Hoff is the director of the Arizona Cancer Center, Tucson.

In his new position, Von Hoff will coordinate AHSC cancer research and therapy programs throughout Arizona. Raymond Nagle, M.D., Ph.D., will serve as interim director of the Arizona Cancer Center while a nationwide search for a new director takes place.

{blacksquare} W. French Anderson, M.D., director of the Gene Therapy Laboratories at the University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, received two honorary degrees from the Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center in Guangzhou, China, and from the Peking Union Medical College.

Anderson recently traveled to China to launch the Collaborative Laboratory at the Sun Yat-sen Cancer Center. The Gene Therapy Laboratories and the Collaborative Laboratory in China will work together to develop new treatments for cancer, using gene therapy and other approaches.

{blacksquare} David Schoetz, M.D., chair of the department of education at Lahey Clinic in Burlington, Mass., has been elected president of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons; Bruce G. Wolff, M.D., professor of surgery at the Mayo Medical School in Rochester, Minn., was named president-elect of the society; and Leela M. Prasad, M.D., chair of the Section of Colon and Rectal Surgery at Lutheran General Hospital in Chicago was named vice president of the society.

{blacksquare} Theodore L. DeWeese, M.D., has been named the first director of the new Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences at Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore. DeWeese has been director of Hopkins’ Radiation Biology program since 2000.

In his new position, DeWeese will be responsible for building the new department, which is an integrated entity of the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center.

{blacksquare} R. Edward Howell, M.D., vice president and chief executive officer at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville, has been appointed chair of the Board of Governors for the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center. The appointment became effective in September.


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