NEWS

Awards, Appointments, Announcements

The American Association for Cancer Research has announced the recipients of the 2002 Scientific Achievement Awards. Award winners will present their research at the AACR’s annual meeting April 6-10 in San Francisco.

• Robert N. Eisenman, Ph.D., of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, received the inaugural Kirk A. Landon Prize for Basic Cancer Research.

• Elwood V. Jensen, Ph.D., of the University of Cincinnati, and V. Craig Jordan, Ph.D., D.Sc., of Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, received the inaugural Dorothy P. Landon Prize for Translational Cancer Research.

• Carl-Henrik Heldin, Ph.D., director of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in Uppsala, Sweden, received the 5th Pezcoller Foundation International Award for Cancer Research.

• Frank McCormick, M.D., of the University of California at San Francisco, received the 42nd G.H.A. Clowes Memorial Award.

• Raymond N. Dubois Jr., M.D., Ph.D., associate director for Cancer Prevention, Control, and Population-Based Research at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, received the 26th Richard & Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award.

• Margaret R. Spitz, M.D., of the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, received the 11th American Cancer Society Award for Research Excellence in Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention.

• Lee M. Nadler, M.D., senior vice president of experimental medicine at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, was awarded the 7th Joseph H. Burchenal Clinical Cancer Research Award.

• Elisabeth Buchdunger, Ph.D., Novartis Pharma AG, Nicholas B. Lydon, Ph.D., Amgen, Inc., Alex Matter, M.D., Novartis Pharma AG, and Jürg Zimmermann, Ph.D., Novartis Pharma AG, the team of researchers that developed Gleevec, were awarded the 21st Bruce F. Cain Memorial Award.

• Todd R. Golub, M.D., of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, was awarded the Cornelium P. Rhoads Memorial Award.

• Ellen S. Vitetta, Ph.D., director of the Cancer Immunobiology Center at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, received the 5th Women in Cancer Research Charlotte Friend Memorial Lectureship.

• Allan H. Conney, Ph.D., director of the Laboratory for Cancer Research at Rutgers University, has received the 7th DeWitt S. Goodman Memorial Lectureship.

Gabig Appointed

Theodore Gabig, M.D., has been appointed vice president of cancer services at the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System in Great Neck, New York.

Gabig was previously director of the hematology and oncology division at Indiana University. He was also associate director for basic research and program director of the hematology-oncology fellowship program.

Moffitt Promotes Two

The H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute in Tampa, Fla., has promoted two of its researchers to directors.

W. J. Pledger, Ph.D., has been named deputy director of Moffitt. He was previously associate center director for Basic Research. Prior to joining Moffitt, Pledger was a professor of cell biology at Vanderbilt University’s School of Medicine.

Christopher Garrett, M.D., has been named medical director of the Clinical Trials Office. Garrett was previously an assistant professor in the Medical Oncology/Hematology Program.



             
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