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Awards, Appointments, Announcements
The 2005 Albert Lasker Medical Research Awards were announced September 18. The Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research was given to Ernest McCulloch, M.D., and James Till, Ph.D., of the Ontario Cancer Institute and the University of Toronto, for their discovery of the first stem cell, a stem cell in the blood-forming system. In addition to catalyzing the field of stem cell biology, their work explained the basis of bone marrow transplantation.
The Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research was presented to Edwin Southern, Ph.D., of the University of Oxford, and Allec Jeffreys, D.Phil., of the University of Leicester, both in England, for their development of Southern blotting, which allows the detection of a single gene, and its derivative, genetic fingerprinting.
The 2005 Mary Woodward Lasker Award for Public Service honored Nancy G. Brinker, founder of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, for her creation of the foundation and for increasing public awareness of breast cancer.
The National Cancer Institute has made two appointments.
John Niederhuber, M.D., has joined NCI as a special advisor to the director for translational and clinical services. Niederhuber recently stepped down as chairman of the National Cancer Advisory Board and was replaced by the Arizona Cancer Center's Daniel Van Hoff, M.D., who will serve as interim chairman.
Jerry Collins, Ph.D., has been named associate director of the Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis and will lead the division's developmental therapeutics program. Collins comes to the NCI from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, where he directed the laboratory of clinical pharmacology.
Gary D. Hammer, M.D., Ph.D., has been installed as the first Millie Schembechler Professor of Adrenal Cancer at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center in Ann Arbor.
Pancreatic cancer surgeon Charles J. Yeo, M.D., has been named the new Samuel D. Gross Professor and Chair of Surgery at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University and at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, both in Philadelphia. Yeo was previously at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore.
The Nevada Cancer Institute in Las Vegas has made several new appointments.
Bryan Y. Wong, M.D., Ph.D., has joined the Department of Hematological Oncology as an assistant member.
Burgess B. Freeman, III, Pharm.D., has been named the director of the clinical pharmacology core. Freeman joined the institute's Division of Drug Development earlier this year.
Celena Kwong, Pharm.D., has joined the office of clinical trials as a clinical pharmacist.
Theresa A. Toigo has been appointed acting director of the Office of Women's Health at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Toigo, who has been with the FDA since 1984, also serves as director of the Office of Special Health Issues.
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