Dr. Lora H. Ellenson, a professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, and collaborators Dr. Alexander Nikitin, a professor of pathology, and Dr. John Schimenti, a professor of genetics from Cornell University were awarded the 2015 Program Project Development Grant from the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund. This program provides $900,000 of funding over three years for large ovarian cancer research projects that involve several investigators within one institution or collaborations between groups in multiple institutions. The Ovarian Cancer Research Fund awards grants to researchers working to better understand, identify, treat and ultimately cure ovarian cancer.
Dr. Andrew I. Schafer, director of the Richard T. Silver, M.D. Myeloproliferative Neoplasm Center and a professor of medicine, delivered the keynote lecture "Is the Physician-Scientist Vanishing?," at the Academy of Medical Sciences' 2015 Spring Meeting for Clinician Scientists in Training, hosted Feb. 26 at the Royal College of Physicians in London. The academy is an honorary society with more than 1,000 fellows in the United Kingdom representing all medical sciences, including veterinary medicine and dentistry.
Dr. Peter Schlegel, chairman of the Department of Urology, the James J. Colt Professor of Urology and a professor of urology and of reproductive medicine, was named an honorary police surgeon for the New York Police Department on March 20 by Police Commissioner William J. Bratton. Physicians selected for this honor must demonstrate expertise in their field and commitment to giving back to the community. The NYPD has recognized several hundred top specialists from across the United States and abroad with this accolade.
Dr. Manish Shah, the Bartlett Family Associate Professor in Gastrointestinal Oncology and an associate professor of medicine, was invited to join Cancer's Editorial Board. The journal is published twice monthly by the American Cancer Society, a nationwide, community-based voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem. Published since 1948, Cancer is one of the oldest peer-reviewed journals in oncology and seeks to impart highly relevant and timely information to a broad audience of oncology and related specialists in the field.