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Awards, Appointments, Announcements
The American Society of Hematology recently announced the winners of several awards. Gary Gilliland, M.D., Ph.D., received the 2003 William Dameshek Prize for his work on the molecular pathogenesis of leukemia. Gilliland is an associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and is a faculty member of the school’s Biological and Biomedical Sciences Program in the Department of Genetics. He is also the Director of the Leukemia Program at the Dana-Farber Harvard Cancer Center, an associate investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and a physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Janet Rowley, M.D., was awarded the Henry M. Stratton Medal, which honors an individual whose contributions to hematology are well recognized and have taken place over a period of several years. In 1972, Rowley discovered a chromosomal translocation in acute myelogenous leukemia. Discoveries of chromosomal translocations in other types of leukemia followed, cementing the idea that these genetic abnormalities were an important component of the disease. Rowley is the Blum-Riese Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Medicine, Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, and the Human Genetics Section of Hematology/Oncology at the University of Chicago.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) received the 2003 Public Service Award from the American Society of Hematology. Feinstein serves as the co-chair of the Senate Cancer Coalition as well as vice-chair of the National Dialogue on Cancer.
Claude Lenfant, M.D., received the society’s first-ever Outstanding Lifetime Service Award. Lenfant, the former director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, helped facilitate the formation of the Thalassemia Clinical Network, the Blood and Marrow Transplant Clinical Research Network, and the Transfusion Medicine/Hemostasis Clinical Trials Network.
Belinda Seto, Ph.D., has been named deputy director of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering at the National Institutes of Health. Seto was previously the acting deputy director for extramural research at the NIH, where she served as adviser to the NIH director on extramural policy issues and was responsible for developing and implementing policies and procedures for extramural research and training programs funded by the NIH.
Larry Norton, M.D., has been named deputy physician-in-chief for breast cancer programs at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York. Norton formerly served as the chief of the Division of Solid Tumor Oncology in the Department of Medicine. He will continue to serve as the medical director of the Evelyn H. Lauder Breast Center. He served as president of the American Society of Clinical Oncology from 2001 to 2002.
The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation announced the winners of its Brinker Awards for Scientific Distinction.
The 2003 Brinker Award winner for advancements in the field of clinical research is Walter Churchill Willett, Ph.D., of Harvard University’s Department of Nutrition in Cambridge, Mass.
Mina J. Bissell, Ph.D., director of the Life Sciences Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif., received the 2003 Brinker Award in the category of research. The awardees received a $10,000 honorarium to be applied to their work.
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