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Jeffrey R. Peterson, PhD
Invited Speaker: FASEB Meeting on Regulation and Function of Small GTPases, Saxtons River, VT, "Small-molecule inhibitors of p21-activated kinase 1 (Pak1)" Received: American Association for Cancer Research-Fox Chase Cancer Center Career Development Award in Translational Cancer Research
John A. Ridge, MD, PhD
Secretary: American Head & Neck Society
Mary E. Ropka, PhD, RN, FAAN
Invited Participant: NIH State-of-the-Science Conference on Tobacco Use: Prevention, Cessation, and Control, Panel Member, Bethesda, MD
Davide Ruggero, PhD
Invited Speaker: "Impairments in IRES-Mediated Translational Control Underlie X-linked Dyskeratosis Congenita," Ribosome Synthesis Conference, Warrenton, VA; "Role of rRNA Modifications In Translation Control and Human Disease," Cold Spring Harbor; "Alterations in Translation Control and Cell Growth in Mouse Models Provide Novel Insights into Cancer and Disease," University of Ottawa
Irma H. Russo, MD
Invited Speaker: "Primary Prevention of Breast Cancer by Hormone-Induced Differentiation," 4th International Conference Cancer Prevention, St. Gallen, Switzerland; "Breast Cancer Prevention in Latinas - Race, Inheritance and Environment (Prevencion del Cancer de Mama en Mujeres Latinas -Raza, Herencia y el Medio Ambiente)," Sponsored Pittsburgh Latino Health Advocacy and Leadership Program, Pittsburgh, PA; "Epidemiological Clues on Breast Cancer Risk and Prevention," Breast Cancer Scientific Session at the Cancer Prevention & Early Detection Symposium, sponsored by CMDA, PUSO, APSDE, ECP, OMED, CRPF, and ACS, International Convention Center, Beijing, China
Panel Member: Quinquennial Review of the Breast Cancer Biology Group: Programme Grant Application. Director: Dr. Joy Burchell, Guy's Hospital, London
Chair: Scientific Symposium, "Tumor microenvironments and Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition," Endocrine Society Meeting in Boston, MA
Jose Russo, MD
Plenary Speaker: "Biology of Primary Prevention," and "The Estrogen Pathway in Breast Cancer Prevention," International Symposium on Cancer Prevention and Early Detection, Beijing, China; "Breast Cancer," XXXIV Jornadas Aniversario Dr. Gerardo Hernandez Munos, Caracas Venezuela; "Estrogen and Breast Cancer," VII Argentinean Congress on Climacteric Mendoza, Argentina; "The Role of Estrogen in Breast Cancer," VII Jornadas de Atencion al paciente oncologico, Palacios de Congresos, Peniscola, Spain; "Genotoxicity of Estrogens in the Initiation of Mammary Cancer," VI Conference on Breast Cancer, Progetto Amazone, Palermo, Italy
Chair: Epidemiology and Prevention Session, 14th Meeting of the International Society of Senology, Zagreb, Croatia
John M. Taylor, PhD
Bruce Witte Distinguished Lecturer: Hepatitis B Foundation, Doylestown, PA Invited Speaker: Conference on Virus Structure and Assembly, Algarve, Portugal; Tumor Virology Program, Henle Symposium, Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania, PA; American Society for Virology, Madison, WI
Invited Chairperson and Speaker: International Symposium on Viral Hepatitis and Liver Disease, Paris, France
Joseph R. Testa, PhD
Received the 2006 Distinguished Alumnus Award from Southern Connecticut State University
Robert G. Uzzo, MD
Visiting Professor: Bunts - Hackler Visiting Professor in Urology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Patricia Weeks
Received the Bayh-Dole Award from the Association of University Technology Managers
Patricia Weeks
Received the Bayh-Dole Award from the Association of University Technology Managers
David L. Wiest, PhD
Invited Speaker: Experimental Immunology Branch Seminars, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD; University of Virginia Carter Immunology Center Seminar Series; Pennsylvania State University Center of Molecular Immunology and Infectious Diseases Seminar Series, University Park, PA; Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation Research Forum; Leiden University Medical Center Immunology Seminar Series, Leiden, NL; Department of Microbiology and Immunology Seminar Series, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN
Kenneth S. Zaret, PhD
Awarded grant from the International Union Against Cancer, Geneva, Switzerland Visiting Professor: Institut Pasteur
Merit Award: National Institute of General Medical Sciences, NIH (2006-2016)
Organizer: FASEB International Conference, Vermont, "Transcriptional Regulation During Cell Growth, Differentiation, and Development"