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William Breitbart
Appointed Behavioral
Sciences Chair at MSKCC
William Breitbart,
MD, has been appointed chair of the
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral
Sciences at Memorial Sloan Kettering
Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York
City and has also been named the new
incumbent of the Jimmie C. Holland Chair
in Psychiatric Oncology. Dr. Breitbart,
whose work focuses on the psychiatric
aspects of cancer and palliative care, has
been on the faculty at MSKCC since 1986,
and he has served as interim chair of the
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral
Sciences since 2012.
Source: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center news release
Cancer Researchers
Awarded 2015 Canada
Gairdner International
Awards
Five members of the oncology community have received 2015 Canada
Gairdner Awards, which are given
annually to five biomedical scientists from around the world whose
significant contributions to medicine
have increased the understanding of
human biology and disease. More than
320 scientists have received Canada
Gairdner International Awards since
their inception in 1959, and 82 of them
have gone on to win the Nobel Prize in
physiology or medicine.
This year’s winners are:
• Lewis C. Cantley, PhD, director
of the Sandra and Edward Meyer
Cancer Center at Weill Cornell
Medical College and New YorkPresbyterian Hospital, the Margaret and Herman Sokol Professor in
Oncology