American Association For Cancer Research Opens Nominations For Susan G. Komen For The Cure(R) Award

Main Category: Breast Cancer
Also Included In: Cancer / Oncology
Article Date: 08 May 2009 - 4:00 PDT

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The American Association for Cancer Research announces a Call for Nominations for the 2009 AACR Outstanding Investigator Award for Breast Cancer Research, funded by Susan G. Komen for the Cure®.

The award recognizes a scientist who is no more than 50-years-old and who is conducting novel and significant work that has had or may have a far reaching impact on the etiology, detection, diagnosis, treatment or prevention of breast cancer. Such work may involve any discipline in biomedical research including basic, translational, clinical and epidemiological studies.

Last year, the inaugural award went to Douglas Easton, Ph.D., director of the Cancer Research UK Genetic Epidemiology Unit at the University of Cambridge in England, for his work with the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, which has provided important risk assessment tools in breast cancer.

The award winner will receive $10,000 and deliver a 25-minute lecture at the 32nd Annual CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, to be held December 9-13, 2009, in San Antonio, Texas.

- Deadline for nominations: May 15, 2009

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American Association for Cancer Research

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