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René Bernards, Ph.D., a molecular biologist at the Netherlands Cancer Institute, has been named one of the four winners of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research 2005 NOW/Spinoza prize, the biggest Dutch award in science. Bernards developed genetic technologies to study cell division and discovered a gene expression pattern that predicts breast cancer metastases.
Three cancer researchers received awards at the recent Society of Nuclear Medicine's annual meeting.
Michael R. Zalutsky, Ph.D., a professor of radiology and biomedical engineering at Duke University in Durham, N.C., received the Berson-Yalow Award, which honors the investigator who has submitted the most original scientific abstracts and made the most significant contributions to basic or clinical radioassay.
Steven M. Larson, M.D., chief of the nuclear medicine service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Institute in New York, received the Georg Charles de Hevesy Nuclear Pioneer Award for his distinguished contributions to nuclear medicine.
David M. Goldenberg, Sc.D., M.D., founder and president of the Garden State Cancer Center and the Center for Molecular Medicine and Immunology in Belleville, N.J., received the Paul C. Aebersold Award for outstanding achievement in basic science applied to nuclear medicine.
Steven Clauser, Ph.D., has been named chief of the National Cancer Institute's Outcomes Research Branch in the Applied Research Program of the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences. Clauser joined NCI in 2002.
Christine Chung, M.D., assistant professor of medicine at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville, has received the Damon Runyon Research Foundation/Lilly Clinical Investigator Award. The award is intended to foster the careers of promising young investigators who are dedicated to conducting patient-oriented research.
Susan Band Horwitz, Ph.D., the Falkenstein Professor of Cancer Research and co-chair of the Department of Molecular Pharmacology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, has been awarded the 17th annual Warren Alpert Foundation Prize. The prize honors Horwitz's contributions to the understanding of how Taxol inhibits the growth of cancer cells.
Eddie Reed, M.D., has been named the director of the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control at the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, one of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Reed joins the CDC from the Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center at West Virginia University.
Tom Curran, Ph.D., F.R.S., chairman of the department of developmental neurobiology at St. Jude Children's Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge. Curran's research focuses on the molecular events that control the formation of the brain in animals and has shown that deregulated gene expression is a critical factor in the development and progression of cancer.
Lynn D. Wilson, M.D., M.P.H., an associate professor in the department of therapeutic radiology at the Yale Cancer Center in New Haven, Conn., has been named vice chairman and clinical director of the department.
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