Awards, Appointments, Announcements

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The 23^rd annual Bristol-Meyers Squibb Award for Distinguished Achievement in Cancer Research was awarded to David Beach, Ph.D., Hugh and Catherine Stevenson Chair of Cancer Biology at the Wolfson Institute, London; and Charles J. Sherr, M.D., Ph.D., chairman of the Department of Tumor Cell Biology at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tenn.

Beach is known for his discovery of the role of cyclins in the cell division cycle. Sherr identified the mammalian G₁ D-type cyclins as delayed-early response genes to growth factor stimulation. The two men received their shared $50,000 award at a ceremony in April in New York.

DuBois Receives Award

Raymond N. DuBois, M.D., Ph.D., received the Outstanding Investigator Award in Clinical Science from the American Federation for Medical Research at its annual meeting in April in San Diego.

DuBois is the Mina Cobb Wallace Professor of Gastroenterology and Cancer Prevention, director of gastroenterology and associate director for cancer prevention in the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Nashville, Tenn.