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Journal of the National Cancer Institute Advance Access originally published online on August 8, 2007
JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2007 99(16):1219; doi:10.1093/jnci/djm122
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NEWS

Awards, Appointments, Announcements

  • The University of California, San Francisco received an anonymous donation of $150 million to support research and patient care programs at the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center. This is the largest individual donation ever received by the university.
  • Kevin R. Fox, M.D., was named the first recipient of the Mariann T. and Robert J. MacDonald professorship in breast cancer care excellence. Fox is the medical director of the Rena Rowan Breast Center at Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania.
  • Eva Hernando, Ph.D., of the department of pathology at the New York University School of Medicine, received a $50,000 grant from the Liddy Shriver Sarcoma Initiative and the Leiomyosarcoma Direct Research Foundation to study microRNA expression in the development of sarcoma.
  • Philanthropist Donald A. Adam donated $20.4 million to create a comprehensive melanoma research center at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center. This is the largest individual gift ever received by the institute.
  • The Roswell Park Cancer Institute appointed several new faculty members: Ilene L. Rothman, M.D., department of dermatology; Shannon L. Smiley, M.D., department of medicine; Alan K. Klizke, M.D., department of diagnostic radiology; and John Pollina, Jr., M.D., department of neurosurgery.
  • Insoo Bae, Ph.D., received a $2 million research award from Susan G. Komen for the Cure to investigate a new method for examining the interaction between environmental carcinogens and genetic risk for breast cancer. Bae is an assistant professor of oncology at the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University Medical Center.
  • Dimitrios Trichopoulos, M.D., Ph.D., professor of cancer prevention at Harvard School of Public Health, Mariano Barbacid, Ph.D., director of the Spanish National Cancer Research Center, and Nancy Brinker, founder of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, were each awarded a medal of honor from the International Agency for Research on Cancer.
  • The National Cancer Institute has developed a new website of cancer risk prediction resources for doctors and other scientific experts: http://riskfactor.cancer.gov/cancer_risk_prediction/.


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