NIH RECOGNIZES 2009 FARE WINNERS

The NIH Fellows Award for Research Excellence (FARE) program recognizes scientific research by intramural postdoctoral fellows. Fellows submit abstracts of their research, which are reviewed by a panel of NIH postdoctoral fellows and principal investigators. Winners receive a $1,000 travel stipend to attend and present their work at a scientific meeting. This year, 1,045 applications were received from fellows across NIH. Of 274 winning abstracts, 5 were from DCEG fellows.

DCEG Winners and Abstract Titles

• Linda Dong, Ph.D., Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch (OEEB): Comprehensive analysis of candidate growth, differentiation, and apoptosis genes with risk of renal cancer in the Central and Eastern European Renal Cancer Study.
• Neal D. Freedman, Ph.D., M.P.H., Nutritional Epidemiology Branch: Cigarette smoking and subsequent risk of lung carcinoma in men and women.
• Kyoung-Mu Lee, Ph.D. (OEEB): Differential effects of smoking and smoky coal use on lung cancer mortality before and after chimney installment in Xuanwei, China.
• Gwen Murphy, Ph.D., M.P.H., Infections and Immunoepidemiology Branch: Epstein-Barr virus and gastric adenocarcinoma: A meta-analysis.
• Chu-Ling Yu, Sc.D., Radiation Epidemiology Branch: Assessment of lifetime cumulative sun exposure using self-administered questionnaire: Reproducibility of two approaches.

More information about the FARE competition is available at http://felcom.nih.gov/FARE.

FARE Winners: Chu-Ling Yu, Gwen Murphy, Neal Freedman, Kyoung-Mu Lee, and Linda Dong.