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Awards, Appointments, Announcements
Adam P. Dicker, M.D., Ph.D., was appointed vice chair for translational research of the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group. Dicker is an associate professor of radiation oncology at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia.
Joan Massagué, Ph.D., of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, was awarded the 2005 Mayor's Award for Excellence in Science and Technology in Biological and Medical Sciences. The awards were given by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Veda N. Giri, M.D., was named director of the Prostate Cancer Risk Assessment Program at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia. Giri has been working at Fox Chase Cancer Center since 2004.
Margaret L. Kripke, Ph.D., was appointed to a second 3-year term on the President's Cancer Panel by President George W. Bush. Kripke is the executive vice president and chief academic officer at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
Henry Rodriguez, Ph.D., was appointed director of the Cancer Proteomics Technologies program at the National Cancer Institute.
Matthew H. Carabasi, M.D., was named associate professor of medicine at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. He also works with the Kimmel Cancer Center in Philadelphia.
The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) awarded the 2006 Landon-AACR Prizes for Basic and Translational Cancer Research to Robert A. Weinberg, Ph.D., and Angela M. Hartley Brodie, Ph.D. Weinberg is a professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. Brodie is professor of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore.
Nancy E. Davidson, M.D., was elected president of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) for a term beginning in 2007. She is currently professor of oncology and director of the breast cancer program at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Bruce J. Roth, M.D., was elected treasurer of ASCO for a term to last from 2006 to 2009. Roth works at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville.
John Mendelsohn, M.D., president of M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, and Joseph Schlessinger, Ph.D., chairman of pharmacology at Yale University School of Medicine, were awarded a 2006 Dan David prize for their research in cancer therapy. Mendelsohn and Schlessinger will share the $1 million prize that comes with the award, which is given annually by the Dan David Foundation based at Tel Aviv University.
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