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Awards, Appointments, Announcements
James E. Darnell Jr., M.D., received the National Medal of Science, the nation’s highest honor for lifetime achievement in scientific research, in recognition of his research on gene regulation. Darnell is head of the Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology at Rockefeller University in New York.
Luis Parada, Ph.D., director of the Center for Developmental Biology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, has been awarded an American Cancer Society basic research professorship. Parada will receive $300,000 over 5 years with the possibility of one 5-year renewal.
Three cancer researchers will share this year’s Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research. The $125,000 prize is awarded to young investigators who have made major accomplishments in cancer research. Winners include Yuan Chang, M.D., a professor of pathology at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute; John F.X. Diffley, Ph.D., a principal scientist at Cancer Research U.K. London Cancer Research Institute, and Nikola Pavletich, Ph.D., chairman of the Structural Biology Program and head of the Laboratory of Structural Biology of Oncogenes and Tumor Suppressors at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
David Kissane, M.D., has been named chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Before joining MSKCC, Kissane was a professor of palliative medicine at the University of Melbourne in Australia.
Twelve cancer researchers have been elected members of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, an organization of scientists and engineers that advises the government on scientific and technological matters.
Robert H. Bartlett, M.D., is a professor of surgery at the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor.
Brian J. Druker, M.D., is the director of the Cancer Institute Leukemia Center at the Oregon Health and Science University in Portland.
Ronald M. Evans, Ph.D., is the March of Dimes Chair in Molecular and Developmental Biology at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego.
Donald E. Ganem, M.D., is a professor of microbiology and medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
Mark T. Groudine, M.D., Ph.D., is deputy director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.
Rakesh K. Jain, Ph.D., is the director of the Edwin L. Steele Laboratory in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
Timothy J. Ley, M.D., is a professor of Medicine in the Division of Oncology at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Mo.
Douglas R. Lowy, M.D., is deputy director of the Division of Basic Sciences and the Center for Cancer Research at the National Cancer Institute.
Harold L. Moses, M.D., is director of the Vanderbilt-Ingram Comprehensive Cancer Center in Nashville, Tenn.
Leona D. Samson, Ph.D., is the director of the Center for Environmental Health Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge.
Peter K. Vogt, Ph.D., is a member of the Division of Oncovirology at the Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, Calif.
In addition, John B. Gurdon, D.Phil., a research scientist at the University of Cambridge, Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research U.K. Institute of Cancer and Developmental Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom was elected foreign associate.
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