ROBERT GENTLEMAN was appointed vice president of computational biology at 23andMe Inc.
LUCILE ADAMS-CAMPBELL was awarded the 10th annual American Association for Cancer Research Minorities in Cancer Research Jane Cooke Wright Lectureship, to be delivered at the AACR annual meeting in Philadelphia.
LEWIS CANTLEY was honored with the ninth annual Princess Takamatsu Memorial Lectureship, to be delivered at the American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting in Philadelphia, April 18-22.
GLAXOSMITHKLINE plans to establish its third center for vaccine research and development in Rockville, Md. The site follows existing R&D centers in Rixensart, Belgium and Siena, Italy, which GSK acquired from Novartis in March.
AETERNA ZENTARIS Inc. has agreed to transfer its discovery library of roughly 100,000 unique compounds to the South Carolina Center for Therapeutic Discovery & Development, part of the Medical University of South Carolina.
ALEKSANDAR ZAFIROVSKI was named executive administrative director and associate director for administration for the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University. He has served as interim associate director since 2014.
RICHARD PAZDUR was chosen by Fortune magazine as one of 50 of the “world's greatest leaders.”
THE GAIRDNER FOUNDATION announced the winners of the 2015 Canada Gairdner Awards, recognizing medical discoveries from around the world.
JIMMIE HOLLAND will receive a Women of Influence Award from the T.J. Martell Foundation.
ELIZABETH JAFFEE was awarded the 20th annual AACR-Joseph H. Burchenal Award for Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Cancer Research by the American Association for Cancer Research.
