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- Visiting Scholar William Blot
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- Drs. Linet and Hartge Recognized by the InterLymph Consortium
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- DCEG Selects the First Robert A. Welch Fellow
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- Fellows Win NIH FARE Awards
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- Staff Receive NIH Merit Awards
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DCEG Staff Receive NIH Merit Awards
At the annual NIH Awards Ceremony in October, the following DCEG staff members received 2009 NIH Merit Awards in recognition of their outstanding achievements:
DCEG Winners: Mark Greene, June Peters, Jackie Lavigne, Rochelle Curtis, Blanche Alter, Neil Caporaso, Maria Teresa Landi, Jennifer Loud, Neelam Giri, Lee Moore, Roni Falk, Philip Rosenberg, Kai Yu, and Sharon Savage. (Not shown: Barry Graubard and Nathaniel Rothman.) (Photograph credit: Alyssa Voss)
Neil E. Caporaso, M.D., and Maria Teresa Landi, M.D., Ph.D., both of the Genetic Epidemiology Branch, for designing and conducting the Environment and Genetics in Lung Cancer Etiology study, the most comprehensive etiologic study of lung cancer conducted to date.
Rochelle E. Curtis, M.A., Radiation Epidemiology Branch, for long-standing contributions to NCI's studies to quantify second cancer risks and other serious late effects among cancer and bone marrow transplant patients.
Roni T. Falk, M.S., Hormonal and Reproductive Epidemiology Branch, for enhancing our understanding of the role of endogenous hormones in cancer etiology through methodological work to ensure that measurements are accurate, reproducible, and sensitive.
Inherited Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes Study Team, which includes Blanche P. Alter, M.D., M.P.H., Clinical Genetics Branch (CGB), Neelam Giri, M.D. (CGB), Mark H. Greene, M.D. (Chief of CGB), Jennifer T. Loud, R.N., C.R.N.P., D.N.P. (CGB), June A. Peters, M.S., C.G.C. (CGB), Philip S. Rosenberg, Ph.D., Biostatistics Branch (BB), and Sharon A. Savage, M.D. (CGB), in collaboration with Ann Carr and Lisa Leathwood from Westat Corporation, for creating the world’s largest cohort of families with inherited bone marrow failure syndromes and for quantifying the risk of cancer in Fanconi anemia and dyskeratosis congenita.
Jackie Lavigne, Ph.D., M.P.H., Chief of the Office of Education, and Barry I. Graubard, Ph.D. (BB), as part of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey surplus serum IGF measurement group.
Lee E. Moore, Ph.D., Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch (OEEB), in recognition of her important scientific contributions to furthering our understanding of molecular pathologic factors that play a role in the etiology of urologic cancers.
Nathaniel Rothman, M.D., M.P.H., M.H.S. (OEEB), for important scientific contributions to our understanding of the molecular epidemiology of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
Sharon A. Savage, M.D. (CGB), for developing DCEG's Genetic Epidemiology of Telomere Maintenance in Cancer Etiology research program and for discovering the TINF2 dyskeratosis congenita susceptibility gene.
Kai Yu, Ph.D. (BB), for developing creative statistical methods for genetic epidemiology with an impact on studies across NCI and the larger scientific community.
