J. ROBERT BECK was named deputy director and chief academic and administrative officer of Fox Chase Cancer Center.
HAROLD VARMUS, director of the NCI and co-recipient of a Nobel Prize for research into the genetic basis of cancer, received the Medal of Honour from the International Agency for Research on Cancer in France.
RICHARD GANNOTTA was named president of Northwestern Memorial Hospital and senior vice president of Northwestern Memorial HealthCare, effective Feb. 10.
GARY SCHWARTZ was named chief of the Division of Hematology/Oncology at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center. He will also serve as associate director for research of the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center.
GARY LYMAN was named co-director of The Hutchinson Institute for Cancer Outcomes Research, based at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. He will co-lead with Scott Ramsey, a member of the Cancer Prevention Program in the Public Health Sciences Division at Fred Hutch.
Julie VoseSource: ASCO.orgJULIE VOSE was elected president of the American Society of Clinical Oncology for a one-year term beginning in June 2015. She will take office as president-elect during ASCO's annual meeting in Chicago in June 2014.
ANDREA SLOAN, an ovarian cancer patient whose efforts to get access to a BioMarin drug attracted national media attention, died from complications of pneumonia Jan. 1 (The Cancer Letter, Nov. 8, 2013). Sloan, an Austin attorney, was 45.
The winners of the 2014 BREAKTHROUGH PRIZE in fundamental physics and life sciences were announced Dec. 12 at the NASA Ames Center, in Mountain View, Calif.
