“I have created many fellowships and scholarships because I want to contribute to the profession by encouraging young students and providing opportunities for them to achieve their own goals and aspirations.”

Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan, Executive-Editor of the Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

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Anne-Lise Børresen-Dale received the annual prize for excellent research from the Research Council of Norway. The award - amounting to 500.000 NOK - was handed over by Tora Aasland - Minister of Education and Research.

According to the jury: "Anne Lise Børresen-Dale ranks among the foremost experts in the country in the field of cancer research. Throughout a period of many years she has conducted ground-breaking research of excellent quality in a number of fields within her subject area. She has made decisive discoveries in research on lung cancer, testicular cancer, colon cancer and - in particular - breast cancer. Børresen-Dale has demonstrated outstanding skills as a builder of scientific milieus. She is involved in a large number of collaboration projects, both nationally and internationally. In 2008 she was elected president of the European Association for Cancer Research. Her research will gain a major clinical significance within diagnostics, therapy and cancer diseases."

Further information: Anne-Lise Børresen-Dale research group home page - Molecular Biology of Breast Cancer.

Marion Broome, PhD, RN, FAAN, editor in chief of Nursing Outlook, has been appointed to the National Advisory Council for Nursing Research at the National Institutes of Health. Her service begins in September.

Rhys Williams (Swansea, UK) has been named the new Editor-in-Chief of Primary Care Diabetes as of July 2008. Professor Williams takes over from Professor Guy Rutten (Utrecht, The Netherlands) who has been acting as Editor-in-Chief since the journal’s launch in 2007. Primary Care Diabetes is the official journal of Primary Care Diabetes Europe (PCDE).

Eugene Hughes, Chairman of PCDE, welcomed the appointment, “It is a great honour to have someone as distinguished as Rhys Williams taking over as Editor-in-Chief of the journal. We will aim to build on the solid foundation, and international reputation that has been created since the launch.”

Rhys Williams is Dean of Medicine and Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the School of Medicine, Swansea University, UK. He is a member of Diabetes UK’s Advisory Council, Chair of its Wales Advisory Council and was, until recently, a Vice President of the International Diabetes Federation. He is a member of IDF’s Prevention Task Force and of its Diabetes Atlas Editorial Board. He is also a visiting consultant to the World Health Organization, Geneva.