Lee Jones, PhD, Scientific Director of the Duke Center for Cancer Survivorship, has been appointed to the International Advisory Board for Lancet Oncology.

Cancer Center member Jeffrey Rathmell, PhD, recently received a grant from Gabrielle's Angel Foundation for Cancer Research for $75,000 a year for three years for "Bcl-2 Family Proteins as Metabolic Targets in Leukemia."

Andrew Armstrong, MD, has received a Department of Defense Prostate Cancer Research Program Physician Research Training Award for $685,172 from July 1, 2010 to June 30 2015. The funds will be used to study circulating tumor cell biology in men with advanced prostate cancer and is in collaboration with Dan George, MD, Phillip Febbo, MD, Simon Gregory, PhD, and Mariano Garcia-Blanco, MD, PhD.

The National Brain Tumor Society presented its first "Founders Award for Research Excellence" jointly to The Cancer Genome Atlas Research Group, and The Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and Duke University Medical Center Group, respectively. The award recognized their ground-breaking work in the major collective advancement in the genomic analysis of gliomas. The Duke group includes Darell Bigner, MD, PhD; Hai Yan, MD, PhD; Roger McLendon, MD; B. Ahmed Rasheed, PhD; and Stephen Keir, DrPH, MPH.

October 21, 2009--Cancer Center member Huntington Willard, PhD, will receive 2009 William Allan Award from the American Society of Human Genetics. The society is the primary professional membership organization for human genetics specialists worldwide, representing nearly 8,000 researchers, academicians, clinicians, genetic counselors, nurses and others with a special interest in this area. The Allan Award recognizes substantial and far-reaching scientific contributions to human genetics, carried out over a lifetime of scientific inquiry and productivity.