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The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) presented several awards at its recent annual meeting: David M. Livingston, M.D., received the 45th AACR-G.H.A. Clowes Memorial Award for his contributions to the understanding of the molecular basis of cancer. Livingston is deputy director of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center and Emil Frei Professor of Genetics and Medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston.
Charles L. Sawyers, M.D., was awarded the 29th AACR-Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award for his research in molecularly targeted therapy. Sawyers is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and the Peter Bing Professor of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Napoleone Ferrara, M.D., a fellow at Genentech Inc., in South San Francisco, Calif., received the 24th AACR-Bruce F. Cain Memorial Award for his discovery of vascular endothelial cell growth factor (VEGF) and his research leading to the development of the anti-VEGF antibody.
Ross L. Prentice, Ph.D., of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Washington, both in Seattle, received the 14th AACR-American Cancer Society Award for Research Excellence in Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention. Prentice was honored for his role in conceiving, designing, and organizing the clinical trial arm of the Women's Health Initiative.
Jimmie C. Holland, M.D., was awarded the 10th AACR-Joseph H. Burchenal Clinical Research Award for her role in establishing psychooncology as a subspecialty within oncology, dealing with the psychological, social, and behavioral aspects related to cancer. Holland is the Wayne E. Chapman Chair in Psychiatric Oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, both in New York.
Gregory J. Hannon, Ph.D., a professor in the Watson School of Biological Sciences at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York, received the 25th AACR Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cancer Research, which is presented to an accomplished young investigator no more than 40 years old. Hannon received the award for his work uncovering the biochemical mechanism of RNA interference of gene expression.
Edward Giovannucci, M.D., Sc.D., Professor of Nutrition and Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health and Associate Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School in Boston, was chosen to deliver the 10th AACR-DeWitt S. Goodman Memorial Lecture. Giovannucci was honored for his contributions to cancer epidemiology and prevention, especially in the role of diet as it relates to colorectal and prostate cancers.
Joan S. Brugge, Ph.D., was honored with the 8th AACR-Women in Cancer Research-Charlotte Friend Memorial Lectureship for her research accomplishments that have provided insight into the processes involved in oncogenesis and the normal functions of protooncogenes. Brugge is chair of the Department of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School in Boston.
David W. Wetter, Ph.D., has been named chair of the new Department of Health Disparities at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
Jaye Viner, M.D., M.P.H., has been appointed chief of the Gastrointestinal and Other Cancers Research Group in the Division of Cancer Prevention at the National Cancer Institute. Viner has served in this group since 1998.
Charles A. Coltman Jr., M.D., president emeritus of the Cancer Therapy & Research Center and professor of medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, has stepped down after 24 years as chair of the Southwest Oncology Group (SWOG). Laurence Baker, D.O., professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor and associate chief of the Division of Hematology/Oncology and deputy director for clinical research at the U-M Comprehensive Cancer Center, will assume the post of chairman.
The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) has announced the results of the organization's recent elections:
Peter A. Jones, Ph.D., D.Sc., who was chosen to be president-elect last year, has acceded to the presidency for a 1-year term. Jones is director of the University of Southern California/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and of the Urological Research Laboratories. Lynn M. Matrisian, Ph.D., will become past president.
George M. Wahl, Ph.D., a professor in the Gene Expression Laboratory at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif., and an adjunct professor at the University of California, San Diego, has been named president-elect.
Five new members have been elected to the AACR Board of Directors: Sara A. Courtneidge, Ph.D., Michigan State University, Grand Rapids; Susan Desmond-Hellmann, M.D., Genentech Inc., and University of California, San Francisco; Scott W. Lowe, Ph.D., Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York; John D. Potter, M.D., Ph.D., Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and University of Washington, Seattle; and David Sidransky, M.D., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore.
Goldman Philanthropic Partnerships is currently accepting applications for its 2006 Charles E. Culpeper Scholarships in Medical Science Program. The program will provide up to three awards of $108,000 per year for 3 years to support the career development of academic physicians. The deadline for applications is August 17. Application forms and instructions may be obtained on the Web at http://www.goldmanpartnerships.org.
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