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Awards, Appointments, Announcements
Michael K. K. Wong, M.D., Ph.D., medical director of clinical drug development at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, N.Y., has been appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board of the National Cancer Coalition.
Saïd Sebti, Ph.D., Manuel and Adeline Garcia Professor, leader of the drug discovery program, and associate director of the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute in Tampa, Fla., has been named the Moffitt's 2005 Scientist of the Year.
Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, N.Y., has made two new appointments:
Dheerendra Prasad, M.D., M.-Ch., has been named director of neuro- and pediatric radiation medicine and co-director of the gamma knife unit in the department of radiation medicine.
Peter Winkelstein, M.D., has been appointed chair for clinical and scientific informatics.
Ellen R. Gritz, Ph.D., the Frank T. McGraw Memorial Chair in the Study of Cancer and professor and chair of the department of behavioral science at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, has been chosen as president-elect for the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco.
Joseph E. Tomaszewski, Ph.D., has been named deputy director of the Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis at the National Cancer Institute.
Eddie Reed, M.D., has been named director of the division of cancer prevention and control at the National Center for Chronic Disease and Health Promotion, one of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Reed comes to the CDC from the Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center at West Virginia University.
The American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO) has announced the recipients of several awards.
Steven J. Chmura, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of Chicago, will receive the Junior Faculty Career Research Award.
Igor Barani, M.D., of the Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center and the Massey Cancer Center in Richmond, and Ajay Bhatnagar, M.D., of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, will each receive a Resident/Fellow in Radiation Oncology Seed Grant.
Gil Bar-Sela, M.D., of the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, Israel, will be presented the ASTRO/NCI Fellowship Faculty Translational Research Award.
The National Foundation for Cancer Research has announced a new science prize to honor the 1937 Nobel laureate Albert Szent-Györgyi, M.D., Ph.D. The Albert Szent-Györgyi Prize for Progress in Cancer Research, a biannual $25,000 cash prize, will be awarded to a scientist whose research has made significant advances in the field of cancer research. The deadline for nominations is September 1. Additional information is available at http://www.nfcr.org/prize.
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