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Bertagnolli, Goldberg, Gunn, Brundage, and Theiler receive awards at Alliance fall meeting

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NIH Director Monica M. Bertagnolli delivered the Charles G. Moertel Lecture at the Fall Group Meeting of the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology. The meeting took place Oct. 30-Nov. 1.

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