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NIH Grants $50 Million To Dana–Farber/Harvard Cancer CenterAfter reviewing the Dana–Farber/Harvard Cancer Center's 1,360 page application and conducting a one-and-a-half-day site visit in February, the National Cancer Institute announced this month that it will award DF/HCC more than $50 million during the next five years to support the center's programs, development initiatives, and core research facilities. Created in late 1999, the center brings together more than 800 scientists from various specialties—immunology, cancer genetics, drug development, and molecular biology, among others—and seven Harvard-affiliated institutions to collaborate on cancer research. Consortium members are Dana–Farber, HMS, HSPH, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Children's Hospital, and Massachusetts General Hospital. "We were planning something that is in many ways unprecedented," said Faye Austin, associate director for administration of DF/HCC. "There is no other Comprehensive Cancer Center in the country that consists of as many large, free-standing institutions. Both we and the NCI team that reviewed our grant application had to think in new terms." Programs within the center are either disease-based or discipline-based, and bring together scientists from population, basic, and clinical science. Program focus ranges from all aspects of one type of cancer, for example the Breast Program, to one called Risk Reduction that focuses on ethnically diverse, low-income areas to learn how to reduce cancer risk in a population that in the past has received little attention in cancer prevention efforts. More information about the programs and core facilities of the DF/HCC can be found at its website at www.dfhcc.harvard.edu.
David Potter (left), the Robert Winthrop professor of neurobiology, chats with HMS first-year student Brian Somoano during the annual multicultural affairs reception honoring incoming minority students and the HMS and HSDM first-year class. More than 150 people attended the Sept. 13 reception, including house officers, faculty, and staff. The event was sponsored by the Office of Recruitment and Multicultural Affairs and was hosted by faculty associate dean for student affairs Alvin Poussaint. Photo by Liza Green On the Threshold: Harvard Medicine at the MillenniumDean Joseph Martin's millennial celebration continues with these upcoming events. For more information, visit the website. October 3Nuclear Shuttling: Pathways to Vital Functions in Health and DiseaseThis Mallinckrodt Foundation–sponsored symposium hosts speakers from HMS, the Scripps Research Institute, the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, and Rockefeller University. 9:00 am-1:00 pm, Enders Auditorium, Children's Hospital October 27How the Body Works—Genomes, Development, and DiseaseIn two separate sessions, Harvard faculty and speakers from Johns Hopkins and Columbia will address early embryonic development, patterning mechanisms, limb development, and brain development and function. 1:00-6:00 pm, TMEC Amphitheater, HMS November 16 and 17Parkinson's and Other Neurodegenerative Diseases: Bench to BedsideThis two-day symposium on neurodegenerative diseases gathers speakers from HMS-affiliated hospitals, the NIH, and Merck to discuss current research and advances in treating these diseases. November 16: 2:00-6:00 p.m.; November 17: 9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Tosteson Medical Education Center Amphitheater, HMS Scholars in Medicine Announces Fellowships for 2000At a reception to be held Oct. 3, the largest number of fellows in the five-year history of the 50th Anniversary Program for Scholars in Medicine will be celebrated. Thirty-one new fellows will be announced, bringing the total number of recipients to 100. The expansion of the program reflects the growing participation of the HMS community. The fellowships have been funded by foundations, faculty, hospitals, departments, schools, alumnae, and corporate sponsors. The purpose of the program has been to enhance the quality and diversity of the Faculty of Medicine by providing protected time or increased research assistance for junior faculty who are pursuing an academic career at the same time as they are assuming heavy personal or family responsibilities.Alexia Antczak-Bouckoms, assistant clinical professor of oral health care policy and epidemiology, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Golden Family Foundation Fellowship Elizabeth Baldini, assistant professor of radiation oncology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Dana–Farber Cancer Institute Fellowship Dong Feng Chen, assistant professor of ophthalmology, Schepens Eye Research Institute, Lilly Center on Aging Fellowship Dorette Ellis, instructor in neurobiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital Fellowship in Memory of Harriet Hardy, M.D. Ruth Fretts, assistant professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive biology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Ob/Gyn Foundation Academic Support Fellowship Ellen Gravallese, assistant professor of medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Claflin Distinguished Scholar Award Christene Huang, instructor in surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Claflin Distinguished Scholar Award Hadine Joffe, instructor in psychiatry, McLean Hospital, McLean Hospital Fellowship Elzbieta Kaczmarek, instructor in medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Phyllis and Paul Fireman Junior Faculty Fellowship Olga Kandror, instructor in cell biology, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Medical School Fellowship in Honor of Carola Eisenberg, M.D. Susan A. Korrick, instructor in medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Edward and Amalie Kass Fellowship at the Channing Laboratory Catherine Lachenauer, instructor in medicine, Children's Hospital, Edward and Amalie Kass Fellowship at the Channing Laboratory Lisa Lehmann, instructor in medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital Fellowship Shyamala Maheswaran, assistant professor of surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Margaret H. Walter and Daughters Fellowship in Memory of Carl W. Walter, M.D. '32 Leila Mankarious, instructor in otology and laryngology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Fellowship Tiina Matikainen, research fellow in obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Dorothy Rachemann Fellowship Robin Mayfield, instructor in medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Golden Family Foundation Fellowship Charlotte McKee, instructor in medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Lynne M. Reid Fellowship in Memory of Violet and Robert Muir Reid Mary McNaughton-Collins, instructor in medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Claflin Distinguished Scholar Award Monica Nadler, instructor in pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Golden Family Foundation Fellowship Marisa Nucci, assistant professor of pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Children's Hospital Pathology Foundations Fellowship Hiroe Ohyama, instructor in oral medicine and diagnostic sciences, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Harvard School of Dental Medicine Fellowship in Honor of Aina M. Auskaps, D.M.D. Lori Panther, instructor in medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Phyllis and Paul Fireman Junior Faculty Fellowship Hanna Radomska, instructor in medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Golden Family Foundation Fellowship Sughra Raza, assistant professor of radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Lilly Center for Women's Health Fellowship Hope Ricciotti, assistant professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive biology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center OB/GYN Foundation Academic Support Fellowship Akiko Shimamura, instructor in pediatrics, Dana–Farber Cancer Institute, Alumnae and Friends Fellowship Miguel Soares, instructor in surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Phyllis and Paul Fireman Junior Faculty Fellowship Reisa Sperling, instructor in neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Claflin Distinguished Scholar Award Susan Voss, instructor in otology and laryngology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Eleanor and Miles Shore Fellowship Katie Weinger, instructor in psychiatry, Joslin Diabetes Center, Joslin Diabetes Center Fellowship in Memory of Priscilla White, M.D. Fund Established in Sharon Clayborne's NameThe Sharon Clayborne Educational Trust has been established in memory of the former HMS director of financial aid, who passed away in April. The trust will provide educational benefits for her granddaughter, Bria. If you would like to contribute, please send your gift to The Sharon Clayborne Educational Trust, c/o Jeffrey Corzilius, PIAM Financial Services, 800 South Street, Ste. 505, Waltham, MA, 02453-1431.Ebert Community Service Day Is ComingThe 8th Annual Robert Ebert Community Service Day will be held Oct. 19 from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the Tosteson Medical Education Center atrium. Student posters will describe community projects, and community agencies will be present to provide more information on the services they provide and how to become a volunteer. The second annual Dean's Community Service Awards will be presented at the beginning of the afternoon event. The awards will recognize eight members of the HMS/HSDM community who have made outstanding efforts to serve the local, national, and international community. The event is open to students, faculty, and staff and is sponsored by the Office of Enrichment Programs. News BriefThe Massachusetts Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (MADRC) is seeking applications from HMS and MIT faculty for one-year pilot grants of $20,000 to fund trials of novel ideas in Alzheimer's research that have not otherwise received support. Priority will be given to junior investigators. Applications are due by Nov. 3. For more information, contact Sarah McKenzie at 726-3987 or e-mail mckenzie@helix.mgh.harvard.edu. |
