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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2007 99(9):671; doi:10.1093/jnci/djk193
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© Oxford University Press 2007.

NEWS

Awards, Appointments, Announcements

  • Raymond N. DuBois, M.D., Ph.D., has been nominated president-elect of the American Association for Cancer Research. DuBois will also join The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Center as provost and executive vice president.
  • Donald Metcalf, M.D., was awarded the American Association for Cancer Research Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cancer Research for his work on the control of blood cell formation. Metcalf is the Carden fellow in cancer research at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute and professor emeritus at the University of Melbourne.
  • Samuel J. Danishefsky, Ph.D., received the first AACR-CICR Award for Outstanding Achievement in Chemistry in Cancer Research. He is the director of the laboratory for bioorganic chemistry at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and professor of chemistry at Columbia University.
  • Mina J. Bissell, Ph.D., received the 2007 Pezcoller Foundation-AACR International Award for Cancer Research. Bissell is a distinguished scientist and senior advisor at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
  • Webster K. Cavenee, Ph.D, was awarded the AACR Princess Takamatsu Memorial Lectureship for his research on genetic mechanisms that predispose people to cancer and for his commitment to the international cancer community. Cavenee is the director of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in San Diego.
  • The American Association for Cancer Research recognized many cancer researchers at their 2007 annual meeting in Los Angeles. The honorees include Janet S. Butel, Ph.D., of Baylor College of Medicine; Harold P. Freeman, M.D., of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; Alexander Varshavsky, Ph.D., of the California Institute of Technology; Michael B. Kastan, M.D., Ph.D., of St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital; Daniel A. Haber, M.D., Ph.D., of Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center; Thomas W. Kensler, Ph.D., of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Kenneth C. Anderson, M.D., of Harvard Medical School; and Kornelia Polyak, M.D., Ph.D., of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.


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