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Awards, Appointments, Announcements
- Scott W. Lowe, Ph.D., deputy director of Cold Spring Harbor
Laboratory's cancer center in Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., has been given the
fourth American Association for Cancer Research–National Foundation for
Cancer Research Professorship in Basic Cancer Research for his work in
enlarging the understanding of the genetic factors that influence the aging
and death of cancer cells.
- Margaret R. Spitz, M.D., chair of the department of epidemiology at
the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, has been
awarded the 2004 Dr. William Cahan Distinguished Professor Award from the
Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute. The honor carries a $600,000
award to conduct epidemiologic research.
- George Weiner, M.D., director of the Holden Comprehensive Cancer
Center at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, has been named chair of the
Iowa Consortium for Comprehensive Cancer Control.
- Deborah Winn, Ph.D., has been appointed chief of the Epidemiology
and Genetics Research Program's Clinical and Genetic Epidemiology Research
Branch at the National Cancer Institute. Winn had been the branch's acting
chief and was also a senior epidemiologist for Tobacco and Cancer Control.
- Judd W. Moul, M.D., has been named the new chief of the Division of
Urology at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C. Moul, who is
retiring as a colonel in the United States Army Medical Corps, was a professor
of surgery at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in
Bethesda, Md., and director of the Center for Prostate Disease Research.
- Ossama Al-Mefty, M.D., professor and chairman of the department of
neurosurgery at the University of Arkansas School of Medicine in Little Rock,
has received the Mahaley Clinical Research Award from the National Brain Tumor
Foundation in cooperation with the Association of Neurological Surgeons and
Congress of Neurological Surgeons Joint Section on Tumors.
- Ira Mellman, Ph.D., has been named scientific director of the Yale
Cancer Center in New Haven, Conn. Mellman is the Sterling Professor of Cell
Biology and Immunobiology at the Yale University School of Medicine and
chairman of the Department of Cell Biology.
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