CCR Milestones - 2019

Michael Gottesman, M.D., was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and received the Dr. Nathan Davis Award for Outstanding Government Service from the American Medical Association. James Kochenderfer, M.D., and Steven Rosenberg, M.D., Ph.D., received a Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer Excellence in Technology Transfer Award for FDA Approval: Personalized Cancer Treatment to Cure Deadly Blood Cancers. Jennifer Jones, M.D., Ph.D., received a Young Investigator Award from the Prostate Cancer Foundation and the Pamela Anne Cafritz Renal Cell Carcinoma Award. Tom Misteli, Ph.D., gave the Mendel lecture and received the Mendel Medal from Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. Ruth Nussinov, Ph.D., received the International Society of Computational Biology’s Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award. Andrea Gross, M.D., received a Conquer Cancer Foundation of ASCO Young Investigator Award and the ASCO Bradley Stuart Beller Endowed Merit Award. Douglas Lowy, M.D., and John Schiller, Ph.D., received the Maryland Tech Council Lifetime Achievement Award and the Szent-Györgyi Prize for Progress in Cancer Research. Kenneth Kraemer, M.D., received the Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society Award. Douglas Lowy, M.D., received ASCO’s Science of Oncology Award and Lecture. 33