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Center Excellence Immunology
Frontiers in Basic Immunology 2009
Oct 1-2, 2009
Location: Masur and Lipsett Auditorium.
CIP People in the News
Congratulations to

Dr. Bob Wiltrout for receiving the HHS Career Achievement Award.

Dr. Ram Savan/Dr. Tim Chan (joint award) and Dr. Andy Stewart for receiving the NCI Directors Innovation Award 2009

Dr. Jie Li, who won the Student/Postdoctoral Fellow Travel Award at the Inflammation, Innate Immunity & Cancer, Soc. for Leukocyte Biology meeting 2008.

Dr. Nadya Tarasova
Our newest CIP members, Nadya Tarasova, for being awarded a Defense Department Prostate Cancer Research Program grant on Self-assembling peptide nanoparticles targeting prostate tumors(based on work done with Zack Howard and Jo Oppenheim).

Dr. Stephanie Watkins
Was selected as one of three recipients of an International Society for Biological Therapy Presidential Travel Award.


2008 NIH Graduate Student Research Award Winner Michael Nickerson, Ph.D., Laboratory of Experimental Immunology

Mike was selected as having one of the two the best posters at the 5th Annual Graduate Partnerships Program (GPP) Graduate Student Research Symposium and received a $500 travel award.

2009 CCR-SS/SC Organization Officers
All the votes have been counted and the 2009 CCR-Staff Scientist/Staff Clinician Organization Officers are:

John Morris (SC Co-Chair)
Yvona Ward (SS Co-Chair - Bethesda)
Ana Robles (Secretary - Bethesda)
O.M. Zack Howard (SS Co-Chair - Frederick)
Bert Gold (Secretary - Frederick)

Dr. Yinling Hu - Highlight
Nature Reviews Cancer, Vol. 8, November 2008

Dr. Bert Gold received the Elliott Osserman Award for Distinguished Service in Support of Cancer Research. This award was given by the Israel Cancer Research Fund and recognizes Dr. Gold's service on the organization's scientific review panel.
Upcoming CIP Scientific Meeting Presentations
Cancer and Inflammation Program Workshop
April 30 - May 1, 2009 (Thursday - Friday)
Eisenhower Hotel & Conference Center
2634 Emmitsburg Road
Gettysburg, PA 17325
Cytokines 2009: Cytokines in Cancer, Inflammation and Infectious Diseases
October 17-21, 2009
Lisbon, Portugal
http://www.cytokines2009.org
6th Annual North American ABC Meeting
September 24-25, 2009
The NIH Office of Rare Diseases, together with the Human Genetics Section, Laboratory of Experimental Immunology, Cancer and Inflammation Program (NCI-CCR), announces the 6th Annual North American ABC Meeting, to be held at NCI-Frederick in Frederick, Maryland. Registration information will be announced at a later date.

This page was last updated on 1/26/2009.