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Bernard Fisher, M.D., received the Flance-Karl Award at the 121st annual meeting of the American Surgical Association.



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Dr. Bernard Fisher

 
Fisher is Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Pittsburgh and scientific director of the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project.

Fisher is the sixth recipient of the award, which is presented to a surgeon in the United States who has made a seminal contribution in basic laboratory research that has application to clinical surgery.

GM Presents Awards

Five researchers received the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation awards in June.

Recipients of the Charles F. Kettering Prize were David E. Kuhl, M.D., professor of radiology and chief of the Division of Nuclear Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, and Michael E. Phelps, Ph.D., Norton Simon Professor and chair of the Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology at the University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine.

The Charles S. Mott Prize was given to Frank E. Speizer, M.D., Edward H. Kass Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston, and Walter C. Willett, M.D., Dr.P.H., professor of epidemiology and nutrition and chair of the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston.

The 2001 Alfred P. Sloan Jr. Prize was awarded to Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of California at San Francisco.

Transplant Director Named

Koen van Besien, M.D., was named director of the Transplant and Lymphoma Program at the University of Chicago.

Van Besien will also serve on the faculty as an associate professor. Prior to moving to the University of Chicago, van Besien was director of stem cell transplantation at the University of Illinois-Chicago Medical Center.



             
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