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Fox Chase Cancer Center
Received: Magnet Nursing Award in Recognition of Excellence in Nursing Service from the American Nurses Association

Fox Chase Cancer Center Institutional Review Board and Program Staff
Received full accreditation from the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protections Programs (AAHRPP)

Agnes B. Baffoe-Bonnie, MD, PhD
Member of the Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues (ELSI) Committee of the International Genetic Epidemiology Society (IGES)

Baruch S. Blumberg, MD, PhD
Member of the Honorary Board of the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation and the Angelo Rancalli International Committee Gave Valeas Lecture at the IV National Meeting of the Italian Society for Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, Florence, Italy
Elected: Vice President of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Invited speaker: "The Forum of Nobel Laureates," Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China

Deborah Watkins Bruner, RN, PhD
Named: Vice-Chair of RTOG
Received: Oncology Nursing Society/Varian Nursing Award for Excellence in Radiation Oncology
Panel Presenter and Co-Moderator: American Society of Therapeutic Radiation and Oncology (ASTRO), 46th Annual Meeting, "Sexual Function After Pelvic Radiation Therapy," Atlanta, GA
Keynote Address: State of the Science Summit II for Pediatric Oncology Nursing Research, "Nursing Research Contributions to the Adult Cooperative Groups," Bethesda, MD

Denise C. Connolly, PhD
Invited Speaker: Gynecologic Cancer Models: Mouse Models of Human Cancer Consortium, San Juan, Puerto Rico; Institut du cancer de Montr?al and Center de recherche CHUM, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; 5th Biennial Ovarian Cancer Research Symposium: Emerging Controversies in Ovarian Cancer Research and Treatment, (Session Chair: Experimental Therapeutics and Ovarian Cancer Modeling), Seattle, WA; 10th Biennial Meeting of the International Gynecologic Cancer Society, Edinburgh, Scotland

Edna Cukierman, PhD
Received: the only 2004 American Association of Cancer Research (AACR-Pennsylvania Department of Health Career Development Award in Basic Cancer Research); The National Pancreas Foundation Award

Mary B. Daly, MD, PhD
Received: 2004 Cancer Control Award from the American Cancer Society, Southeast Region, Pennsylvania Division; 2004 Certificate of Honor from the Temple University General Alumni Association

Antonio Di Cristofano, PhD
Invited Speaker: Gynecologic Cancer Models Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Richard E. Greenberg, MD
Appointed: Surgical Director, American Russian Cancer Alliance

Vincent Guacci, PhD
Invited Lecture: "Pds5p and Top2p Contribute to Mitotic Chromosome Structure in Different Ways," Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville, VA; "Is the Role of Pds5p in Sister Chromatid Cohesion Restricted to Cohesion Maintenance or Does it Play a role in Establishment?" - Department of Medical Genetics and Microbiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Awarded: The Hedda L. Komins Fund for Breast Cancer Research and Prevention

Elizabeth Petri Henske, MD
Elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI)

Eileen K. Jaffe, PhD
Invited Lectures: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA; University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH; Case Western University, Cleveland, OH; University of California, Los Angeles, CA; Gordon Research Conference on Chemistry and Biology of Tetrapyrroles, Newport, RI; International Agency for Research on Cancer, Working Group on Lead and Lead Compounds, Lyon, France

Alfred G. Knudson Jr., MD, PhD
Awarded: 2004 Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences, which is considered among the world's leading awards for lifetime achievement Outstanding Scientific Contributions: The editors of Genes, Chromosomes, & Cancer devoted an entire issue of their journal to Alfred G. Knudson. This is the first time that an issue of the journal has been devoted to the work of a single individual. More
Received: Reimann Award from Fox Chase Cancer Center; the 11th recipient of Fox Chase's Reimann Honor Award
Guest of Honor: XI International Congress of Ocular Oncology, Hyderabad, India

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