A. Jamie Cuticchia, PhD, JD, Duke Bioinformatics Scholar in the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center, recently received a $3.4 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to continue work on C3PR and release version 3 of the software. Cancer Central Clinical Participant Registry (C3PR) is a Web-based application for managing clinical trial data across multiple cancer clinical trials and trial sites. Cancer Center Information Systems Director Bob Annechiarico manages the project.

Judd W. Moul, MD, FACS, James H. Semans, MD, professor of surgery, chief of the Division of Urology, and director of the Duke Prostate Center, is one of only three physicians nationally who received a 2009 Clinical Excellence Award from Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. The award recognizes physicians who exemplify excellence in clinical medical practice.

July 29, 2009--Cancer Center member Mark Dewhirst, DVM, PhD, has been named a 2009 Fellow of the American Society for Radiation Oncology. Members of ASTRO are eligible to become a Fellow if they have been part of the Society for at least 20 years, have served in a leadership role for the organization and have made a significant contribution to the field of radiation oncology. The primary pathways to becoming a Fellow are excellence in research, patient care, education and leadership/service.

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