June 15, 2009--Mark Dewhirst, DVM, PhD, is the 2009 recipient of the European Society of Hyperthermic Oncology-BSD Award for Excellence in Hyperthermia Research. This is the first time in the 10 year history of this award that it has been given to someone outside Europe.

May 14, 2009--Several Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center members have recently been awarded distinguished professorships:

-Catherine Gilliss, D.N.Sc, RN--Helene Fuld Health Trust Professor of Nursing

-Judd Moul, MD--James H. Semans, MD, Professor of Surgery

-Theodore Pappas, MD--Duke Minimally Invasive Surgery Professor of Surgery

-Henry Rice, MD--Paul H. Sherman, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery

-Xiao-Fan Wang, PhD--Donald D. and Elizabeth G. Cooke Professor of Experimental Oncology

-Kent Weinhold, PhD--Joseph W. and Dorothy W. Beard Professor of Surgery

-John York, PhD--Cancer Biology Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology

May 14, 2009--Vann Bennett, PhD, has been recently elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

May 14, 2009--Daniel Sullivan, MD, will receive on Friday the 2009 Gold Medal from the Association of University Radiologists (AUR) for his contributions to AUR and the field of academic radiology.

May 7, 2009--Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center member Lorena S. Beese, PhD, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, an advisory organization to the president and Congress composed of experts in all scientific fields. She is one of 72 newly elected members of the NAS.