AACR CEO Margaret Foti receives honorary M.D. from the University of San Pablo CEU

MADRID The University of San Pablo CEU, a major academic and research institution in Madrid, Spain, today presented Margaret Foti, Ph.D., M.D. (h.c.), chief executive officer of the American Association for Cancer Research, with an honorary doctorate in medicine that recognizes her exceptional co...

Council for American Medical Innovation Applauds the Confirmation of Margaret Hamburg, M.D., to Lead U.S. Food and Drug Administration

WASHINGTON, May 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Council for American Medical Innovation today expressed its support for the appointment and confirmation of Margaret Hamburg, M.D., to Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/2009032...

Scientists discover how to improve immune response to cancer at Princess Margaret Hospital

(Toronto April 26, 2009) A team of scientists at The Campbell Family Institute for Breast Cancer Research (CFIBCR) at Princess Margaret Hospital and international collaborators have discovered how to trigger an improved immune response to cancer that could be included in new clinical trials that...

USP applauds nomination of Dr. Margaret Hamburg as FDA Commissioner

Rockville, Md., March 16, 2009 Noting the growing importance of drug and food quality on the nation's agenda, Roger L. Williams, M.D., chief executive officer of the U.S. Pharmacopeial (USP) Convention, today issued the following statement regarding the nomination of Dr. Margaret Hamburg as commi...

GPhA Statement on Nomination of Dr. Margaret Hamburg as Commissioner and Dr. Joshua Sharfstein as Deputy Commissioner of FDA

ARLINGTON, Va., March 14 /PRNewswire/ -- The Generic Pharmaceutical Association (GPhA) released the following statement today from GPhA President and CEO Kathleen Jaeger regarding the nomination of Dr. Margaret Hamburg as Commissioner and Dr. Joshua Sharfstein as Deputy Commissioner of the U.S. Fo...

Appointment of Margaret Hamburg to Lead FDA Lauded by Gov. Lowell Weicker, President of the Board of Trust for America's Health

WASHINGTON, March 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a statement by Governor Lowell Weicker, Jr., former Governor and three-term U.S. Senator from Connecticut, and President of the Board of the Trust for America's Health (TFAH) on the appointment of Margaret A. (Peggy) Hamburg, MD, to ...

ABMS Appoints Margaret Jung As New COO

American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS), the pre-eminent entity overseeing the certification of physician specialists in the United States, has appointed Margaret S. Jung, MBA, as the organization’s new chief operating officer. Her tenure begins today. EVANS...

China Nominates Margaret Chan to Run for WHO Director-General's Post

Promising greater contribution to global health affairs, China today nominated Hong Kong's Margaret Chan to run for the post of Director-General of World Health Organisation (WHO).// Chan currently serves as WHO Assistant Director-General for Communicable Diseases. The election for new Direct...

KelseyCare Advantage Enrolls 10,000th Member

...care beneficiaries in the counties of Harris, Fort Bend, Montgomery, and Galveston on the Mainland, announced the enrollment of their 10,000th member, margaret "Meggie" Stiles, 65 and a resident of Spring, Texas. KelseyCare Advantage is designed to offer Medicare-eligible individuals more healthcar...

The Aspen Institute and TIME Convene Debate on Health Care at The Aspen Health Forum

...i , Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH Mark Ganz, President and CEO, Regence BlueCross BlueShield Dr. margaret Hamburg, Commissioner, U.S. Food and Drug Administration Goldie Hawn, Actress; Founder, The Hawn Foundation Jeffrey Kluger, Senior Ed...

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Estrogen Getting Cool Reception From Dermatologists for Mixed Results in Improving Appearance of Skin

... long-term outweigh any potential skin benefits. At the American Academy of Dermatology's Summer Academy Meeting 2009 in Boston, dermatologist margaret E. Parsons, MD, FAAD, assistant clinical professor of dermatology at the University of California at Davis in Sacramento, reviewed studies that demons...

Lupus Research Institute Highly Encouraged by Benlysta(TM) Trial Results

...stemic lupus. "We are very hopeful that we now are strongly on our way to the first new treatment for lupus in 50 years," said LRI President, margaret G. Dowd. "We look forward to the impact that a new drug for lupus will have on the lives of the 1.5 million Americans, and millions more worldwide, wh...

Stand Up To Cancer Awards $73.6 Million for Novel, Groundbreaking Cancer Research

...o Stand Up To Cancer has been extraordinary," said margaret Foti, Ph.D., M.D. (h.c.), CEO of AACR. "It has be...enter, SU2C Scientific Advisory Committee margaret Foti, Ph.D., M.D. (h.c.), CEO of American Associa...enter, SU2C Scientific Advisory Committee margaret Foti , PhD., M.D. (h.c.), CEO, American Associatio...

Autism Genes Discovered; Help Shape Connections Among Brain Cells

...udies was provided by The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, the National Institutes of Health, Autism Speaks, and many other sources, including the margaret Q. Landenberger Foundation, the Cotswold Foundation, the Beatrice and Stanley A. Seaver Foundation, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Utah A...

Aegera Initiates a Fifth Phase 1 and 2 Clinical Trial for AEG35156

...s with Relapsed or Refractory Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, Small Lymphocytic Lymphoma and Follicular Lymphoma." It is being conducted at the Princess margaret Hospital (PMH) located in Toronto, Ontario, and is led by Principal Investigator Dr. Christine Chen, with co-Principal Investigators Dr. Aaron Schimme...

Omeros Announces Initiation of Patient Enrollment in OMS201 Phase 1 Study

...n and smooth muscle spasm. Principal Investigators are Ralph Clayman, MD, Chair of the Department of Urology at University of California Irvine, and margaret Pearle, MD, PhD, Professor of Urology at University of Texas Southwestern. About Omeros Corporation Omeros Corporation is a clinical-stage biophar...

Sunesis Pharmaceuticals Reports Data from Nonclinical Studies of SNS-032 at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research

...lignancies and further support our ongoing Phase 1 clinical trial." An oral presentation by Suzanne Trudel, MSc, M.D., Assistant Professor, Princess margaret Hospital, University Health Network in Toronto, Canada, focused on results from studies by the MMRC Validation Team, in collaboration with Sunesis sci...

Bertrand Study Finds Significant Value in Breast-Specific Gamma Imaging (BSGI) as an Adjunctive Procedure in Breast Diagnostics

... demonstrates BSGI is both patient and cost effective. NEWPORT NEWS, Va., March 6 /PRNewswire/ -- A recent study performed by Dr. margaret Bertrand, Director of Breast Imaging at Solis Bertrand Breast Center in Greensboro, North Carolina demonstrated the significant value of Breast-Specif...

EntreMed Commences Phase 2 Study With MKC-1 in Ovarian/Endometrial Cancers

...ients. The study will be conducted at multiple sites in Canada with Dr. Amit Oza, Senior Staff Physician and Associate Professor of Medicine, Princess margaret Hospital, University of Toronto, serving as the principal investigator. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20010620/ENMDLOGO ) The prima...

Measles Deaths in Africa Plunge by 91%

...nd Mortality Weekly Report. "This is a major public health success and a tribute to the commitment of countries in the African region," said Dr. margaret Chan, WHO Director-General. "We need to sustain this success and intensify our efforts in other parts of the world, as there are still far too many li...

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Babies switched at birth

...surrounding whom were subsequently dramatized as the made-for-TV movie Switched at Birth the cases of the children of two South African women, margaret Clinton-Parker and Sandra Dawkins, whose sons were accidentally switched at birth in 1989, and who sued in the High Court of South Africa in Johann...

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Lung tumor

...mptoms, cancer detection and prevention, ... Ablation of Small Lung Tumors Can Be Curative." Robert ... PATHOLOGY OF TUMORS OF THE LUNG . margaret M Grimes, MD. Surgical ... represents the most malignant end of the spectrum of neuroendocrine tumors of the lung ... ...

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M. D. Anderson gives first Margaret Kripke Legend Award to Margaret Foti

HOUSTON ― Margaret Foti, Ph.D., M.D. (h.c.), chief executive officer of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), today received the inaugural Margaret Kripke Legend Award from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. The Kripke Legend award recognizes scientific ...

The American Association for Cancer Research congratulates Margaret Hamburg, M.D.

PHILADELPHIA The American Association for Cancer Research extends its sincere congratulations to Margaret Hamburg, M.D., on her nomination to lead the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). As FDA commissioner, Hamburg will oversee the advancement of cutting-edge products and therapies that are c...

AGU Journalism Awards won by Margaret Munro and Dr. Richard Smith

WASHINGTON Margaret Munro and Dr. Richard Smith have won the American Geophysical Unions 2008 journalism awards: Munro will receive the David Perlman Award for Excellence in Science JournalismNews for her article on the biggest breakup in northern Canada in 30 years of an ice shelf suspect...

Microbes and their hosts -- exploring the complexity of symbiosis in DNA and cell biology

...in-Chief of DNA and Cell Biology , Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and President of the Rosalind Franklin Society, and Guest Editor margaret J. McFall-Ngai, Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in their Editorial. The issue contains articles representative of the broad range...

LSUHSC research helps link schizophrenia to specific DNA region

...culties when they try to have relationships with others. The LSUHSC research team, which included LSUHSC Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, margaret Baier, MD, and Erich Conrad, MD, LSUHSC Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, as well as Sherri Chalona, completed the work while evacuated from New Orle...

UTSA infectious disease researchers advancing vaccine against Valley fever

...re. This most recent study has been funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the California HealthCare Foundation and the margaret Batts Tobin Foundation. "Respiratory infections caused by Coccidioides tend to escape the radar of most large pharmaceutical companies, because o...

New guide to tropical seedlings: Essential to climate change research

...the process of identifying seedlings, which lack brightly colored flowers, fruit and other distinguishing adult characteristics. Richly illustrated by margaret Tebbs, the guide includes descriptions of nearly 3,000 species in 1,243 genera representing 229 families. "Exact description of plants and animals ...

Jefferson researcher awarded Landenberger Foundation grant for ALS research

...Thomas Jefferson University was recently awarded a margaret Q. Landenberger Research Foundation grant to ident... on ALS therapy. We are extremely grateful to the margaret Q. Landenberger Research Foundation for seeing the...ork has and awarding us this grant money." The margaret Q. Landenberger Research Foundation, which was for...

Boston College chemistry professor Udayan Mohanty receives a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship

...of DNA and RNA. Mohanty joins a distinguished list of fellow BC chemists who have previously received Guggenheim Fellowships, including John Tully, margaret Tolbert, and Laura Kiessling. ...

Arctic governments and industry still unprepared for oil spills 20 years after Exxon Valdez

...ez spill has been the best-studied oil spill in history and scientists have found that even 20 years later, the damage from the spill continues," said margaret Williams, managing director of WWF's Alaska program. "Fishermen's livelihoods were destroyed, many wildlife and fish populations still haven't recover...

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Novel drug discovery tool could identify promising new therapies for Parkinson's disease

...ug discovery, not only for Parkinson's disease, but theoretically for any disease where key aspects of the pathology can be reproduced in yeast," says margaret Sutherland, Ph.D., a program director at NIH's National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). "A key step for the future will be to...

2009 Medical Innovation Summit at Cleveland Clinic to Highlight the Latest Developments in Cancer Care

...sella, M.D., Novartis; David Brennan, AstraZeneca; Richard Clark, Merck; Fred Hassan, Schering-Plough; Greg Lucier, Life Technology, FDA Commissioner margaret Hamburg, M.D.; network correspondent Maria Bartiromo, CNBC; and the CEOs and venture investors of numerous emerging technology companies. For a compl...

MSNBC Publishes Free Online Abridgment of 'Biocentrism'

...ory of the Universe which appeared in The American Scholar, a leading intellectual journal which has previously published works by Albert Einstein, margaret Mead, and Carl Sagan, among others. According to Nielsen Online, MSNBC.com is the number one Current Events and Global News site with more than 40 m...

EntreMed ENMD-2076 Phase 1 Data to Be Presented at ASCO Annual Meeting

...efforts for ENMD-2076 and has commenced a Phase 1 study in patients with relapsed or refractory leukemia. The study will be conducted at the Princess margaret Hospital in Toronto, Ontario and Karen Yee, M.D., will serve as Principal Investigator. Although the primary endpoints of the study include defining ...

Aegera Therapeutics' phase 1/2 clinical trial results selected for oral presentation at 2008 ASH Annual Meeting

...ional patients will be presented at the ASH Annual Meeting. The study's principal investigator, Dr. Aaron D. Schimmer, M.D., Ph.D. of the Princess margaret Hospital in Toronto will present the results of this study at the ASH session entitled "Acute Myeloid Leukemia - Therapy, Excluding Transplantation". ...

Sentry Logistic Solutions Offers Outsourced Vaccine Storage & Distribution Service

...more information about the company, visit http://www.SentryLogistic.com, or call (866) 757-7400. MEDIA CONTACTS Kristy Boone margaret Osborn Synergy Marketing Group, Inc. Synergy Marketing Group, Inc. (317) 205-9690 ext. 228 (317) 205-9690 ext. 224 kristy@synergy-mg.com ...

Ultrafast lasers give CU-Boulder researchers a snapshot of electrons in action

...o breakthroughs in materials research and in fields like catalysis and alternative energy, according to CU-Boulder physics professors and JILA fellows margaret Murnane and Henry Kapteyn, who led the research efforts with scientist Albert Stolow of the Canadian National Research Council's Steacie Institute for...

FDA Gets Knocked Out in Endotec, Inc. Ruling

...l device regulation. " ... almost all of the leadership at the office of regulatory is leaving, including Associate Commissioner of Regulatory Affairs margaret Glavin, who is retiring, and Assistant Commissioner for Compliance Policy David Horowitz, who was recently promoted to assistant commissioner for poli...

Symbiotic microbes induce profound genetic changes in their hosts

...ate a stable association with a microorganism requires a lot of conversation between the microbe and the host," says UW-Madison medical microbiologist margaret McFall-Ngai, senior author of the new study. Many studies have focused on the bacterial side of that conversation. But aside from a few "professio...

Aflac and the American Association for Cancer Research Unite to Issue Inaugural Aflac Career Development Award for Childhood Cancer Research

... will enable young cancer research pioneers to continue their studies until we find a cure." Praising Aflac's alliance, AACR Chief Executive Officer margaret Foti, Ph.D., M.D. (h.c.), said, "For the past decade, Aflac has invested in helping young scientists and doctors get the training they need at our nat...

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Eugenics

...igners. Some who disagree with the idea of eugenics in general contend that eugenics legislation still had benefits; namely, that advocates such as margaret Sanger (founder of Planned Parenthood of America ) found it a useful tool to urge the legalization of contraception . In its time, eugenics was see...

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Microsatellite

...ed microsatellite libraries (2/00 JTS, KC and all) ... Since the microsatellite probes are attached to the beads, and any DNA fragments ... Dr. margaret J. Kovach is an assistant professor at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences. ... S...