Susan G. Komen for the Cure(R) Announces Recipients of 2008 Komen Brinker Award for Scientific D...( DALLAS Dec. 4 /- Two researchers who ...),Health

DALLAS, Dec. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Two researchers who translate math into better patient care and one scientist focused on stopping breast cancer in its tracks are this year's winners of the Komen Brinker Award for Scientific Distinction in basic research and clinical research. They will be honored Dec. 11 in San Antonio, Susan G. Komen for the Cure(R) announced today.

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Award recipients will be formally recognized during the 31st annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS), a major international gathering of breast cancer researchers, clinicians and patient advocacy organizations, held Dec. 11-14 in San Antonio, Texas. The three recipients will deliver lectures for SABCS attendees at 4:15 p.m.Dec. 11 in Exhibit Hall D of the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center. Each will receive a cash award of $25,000 and a crystal award.

    WHAT:   Komen for the Cure honors researchers at San Antonio Breast Cancer
            Symposium

    WHEN:   Thursday, Dec. 11, 2008, 4:15 p.m.

    WHERE:  Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, Exhibit Hall D.

    WHO:    Patricia Steeg, Ph.D. Chief of Women's Cancers Section, Center for
            Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute; Richard Gelber, Ph.D.
            Professor of Pediatrics (Biostatistics), Harvard Medical School;
            Aron Goldhirsch, M.D. Director of the Dept. of Medicine, European
            Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy.

    EXTRAS: Awardees, Komen's CEO and Chief Scientific Advisor available for
            interviews

About Susan G. Komen for the Cure(R)

Nancy G. Brinker promised her dying sister, Susan G. Komen, she would do everything in her power to end breast cancer forever. In 1982, that promise became Susan G. Komen for the Cure(R) and launch
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