In Brief

LOIS TRAVIS was named the Lawrence H. Einhorn Professor of Cancer Research at the Indiana University School of Medicine and director of the Cancer Survivorship Research Program at the IU Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center.

JEFFREY RATHMELL and W. KIMRYN RATHMELL were both appointed to leadership roles at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

MASSIMO CRISTOFANILLI was appointed associate director for precision medicine and translational research at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University and director of Northwestern OncoSET.

FRANCIS COLLINS, director of the NIH, was awarded the Leadership in Personalized Medicine Award by the Personalized Medicine Coalition. He will be presented the award during the Personalized Medicine Conference at Harvard Medical School Nov. 19.

ROBERT DIPAOLA, STEPHEN GRUBER and CANDACE JOHNSON were elected to the board of directors of the Association of American Cancer Institutes. Their three-year terms will begin Oct. 25, during the annual meeting of the AACI and the Cancer Center Administrators Forum in Washington, D.C.

EDITH MITCHELL was named president of the National Medical Association, at the organization's 113th annual convention and scientific assembly in Detroit Aug 4. Mitchell is a professor of medical oncology at Thomas Jefferson University.

THE CANCER PREVENTION AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS awarded seven grants through its academic research program. The grants, totaling $23 million, support the recruitment of seven cancer scientists to academic institutions in Texas, including two distinguished senior researchers.

NORTHWESTERN MEDICINE and the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University officially named the Lynn Sage Cancer Research Foundation Breast Cancer OncoSET program.

KEITH PERRY was named as chief information officer of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.