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The 2004 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize has been awarded to Tony Hunter, Ph.D., and Anthony J. Pawson, Ph.D., for their scientific contributions to the understanding of signal transduction that have led to drug therapies that halt the spread of cancer. Hunter is the American Cancer Society professor of molecular and cell biology at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego, and Pawson is a senior investigator and director of research at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto and university professor of medical genetics and microbiology at the University of Toronto. The prize is given annually by Columbia University in New York.
The 2005 Wolf Prize in Medicine will be presented to Tony Hunter, Ph.D., Anthony J. Pawson, Ph.D., and Alexander Levitzki, Ph.D. on May 22. Levitzki is the Wolfson Family Professor of Biochemistry at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The three recipients are being honored for their research in cancer development and treatment. The prize is awarded by the Wolf Foundation.
Andre A. Konski, M.D., has been named clinical research director for the Department of Radiation Oncology at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia. Konski is also clinical director of the Prostate Cancer Risk Assessment Program.
The 2005 Japan Prize for cell biology will be presented on April 20 to Erkki Ruoslahti, M.D., Ph.D., distinguished professor at the Burnham Institute in La Jolla, Calif., and Masatoshi Takeichi, Ph.D., Director of RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, Japan. The pair is being honored for their contributions in elucidating the molecular mechanisms of cell adhesion. The Japan Prize is awarded annually to "people from all parts of the world whose original and outstanding achievements in science and technology are recognized as having advanced the frontiers of knowledge and served the cause of peace and prosperity for mankind."
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Barbara K. Rimer, Dr.P.H., has been appointed dean of the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, effective June 1. Rimer, a behavioral scientist, is the alumni distinguished professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education and the deputy director for population sciences at the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. She previously served as the director of the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences at the National Cancer Institute.
The H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute in Tampa, Fla., has made two new appointments:
Carlos A. Muro-Cacho, M.D., Ph.D., has been named chief of surgical pathology.
Nicholas Lawrence, Ph.D., has joined the Drug Discovery Program and the Department of Interdisciplinary Oncology as associate professor of chemistry.
Walter J. Curran Jr., M.D., professor and chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia and clinical director of Jefferson's Kimmel Cancer Center, has received an honorary membership from the European Society of Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology. Honorary membership within ESTRO is usually awarded to one non-European researcher each year.
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