Recent CCR Awards

American Society for Public Service
and National Academy of Public
Administration National Public
Service Award
– For excellence in public service
Peter M. Blumberg, Ph.D.
Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Genetics

American Association of Immunologists
Public Service Award
– For advancing immunological research
related to aging
Richard J. Hodes, M.D.
Experimental Immunology Branch

American Society of Investigative
Pathology Chugai Award
– For excellence in mentoring and scholarship
Elaine S. Jaffe, M.D.
Laboratory of Pathology

American Medical Association
Dr. Nathan Davis Award
– For outstanding government service
W. Marston Linehan, M.D.
Urologic Oncology Branch

Service to America Medal
– For selection as Federal Employee of the Year
Novartis Prize for Immunology
– For excellence in immunology research
Douglas R. Lowy, M.D.
John T. Schiller, Ph.D.
Laboratory of Cellular Oncology

American Cancer Society's Medal
of Honor
– For basic research
Eugene J. Van Scott Award and Phillip
Frost Leadership Lecture
– For innovative therapy of the skin
Douglas R. Lowy, M.D.
Laboratory of Cellular Oncology

Society for Melanoma Research Senior
Researcher Award
– For development of murine melanoma models
Glenn Merlino, Ph.D.
Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Genetics

Twelfth Annual Keio University Medical
Science Prize, Japan
– For development of AIDS drugs
Hiroaki Mitsuya, M.D., Ph.D.
HIV and AIDS Malignancy Branch

Weizmann Institute of Science Sergio
Lombroso Award
American Society of Clinical Oncology
Statesman Award
Abbott Laboratories Award in Clinical
and Diagnostic Immunology
– For distinguished achievement in cancer research
Steven A. Rosenberg, M.D., Ph.D.
Surgery Branch

American Association of Immunologists
Dana Foundation Award in Human
Immunology Research
– For significant and sustained achievement in immunology research
Thomas A. Waldmann, M. D.
Metabolism Branch

American of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Jaroslav Heyrovsky Honarary Medal for
Merit in Chemical Sciences
– For contributions to the studies of protein structure
Alexander Wlodawer, Ph.D.
Macromolecular Crystallography Laboratory

Stanford Medical Research
Scholarship Award
– To fund research and training in Tumor Immunology
and Biology
Jorge Caballero, B.S.
Laboratory of Tumor Immunology and Biology

CCR Summer Student Was an Intel Semifinalist

Sappho Z. Gilbert, a summer student in Maria Tsokos, M.D.’s Pediatric Tumor Biology and Ultrastructural Pathology Section of the Laboratory of Pathology, was one of 40 finalists in the highly competitive Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for 2008. This competition for high school students awards approximately $1 million in scholarships each year and recognizes outstanding students nationally. Gilbert’s project was entitled, “Survivin Correlates with Prognosis and Inhibits Drug-induced Apoptosis in Ewing Sarcoma Family Tumors.”

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