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January/February 2024 | Volume 23 Number 1
Alex Mremi wins James G. Hakim Award
Dr. Alex Mremi, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre department of pathology, has been awarded the annual James G. Hakim Award on behalf of Fogarty, the African Forum for Research and Education in Health (AFREhealth), and the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH). This award recognizes an African who is working toward their terminal degree and who received the top score for their submitted abstract for CUGH 2024.
W. Kimryn Rathmell selected for top role at NCI
Dr. W. Kimryn Rathmell was selected by President Biden as the 17th director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in December. Rathmell was previously the Hugh Jackson Morgan Chair in Medicine, chair of the department of medicine, and physician-in-chief at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. She served as president of the American Society for Clinical Investigation in 2019 and, during the past two years, was elected to the National Academy of Medicine and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She’s been a member of NCI’s Board of Scientific Advisors since 2018. Rathmell succeeds Dr. Monica M. Bertagnolli, who left NCI to become NIH director.
Prajakta Adsul assumes director role at UNM’s CADIS
Former Fogarty fellow Dr. Prajakta Adsul has been named director of University of New Mexico’s new Center for Advancing Dissemination and Implementation Science (CADIS). CADIS will provide core service supports to promote dissemination and implementation science across Health and Health Sciences. The university’s Office of Research for Health Sciences has committed $1.32 million to support the CADIS, including career development opportunities. Since 2019, Adsul has been a faculty member in the Division of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Preventive Medicine and is a member in the Cancer Control and Population Sciences Research Program.
Mikus to lead Global Health Technologies Coalition
Global Health Technologies Coalition (GHTC) appointed Dr. Kristie Mikus as executive director. Mikus spent two decades serving the U.S. government, including as senior policy advisor for the Global Health Center at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), CDC deputy country director in Zambia, and the Zambia country coordinator for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).
SAMRC names Ntobeko Ntusi president and CEO
The South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) has appointed Dr. Ntobeko Ntusi as its new president and CEO, effective July 2024. Ntusi, a cardiologist, currently heads the department of medicine, and acts as clinical lead for cardiovascular magnetic resonance and cardiovascular computed tomography at Groote Schuur Hospital. He also serves as professorial chair of the department of medicine, in the faculty of health sciences at the University of Cape Town. Currently he directs the SAMRC/University of Cape Town extramural unit on the Intersection of Non-communicable Diseases and Infectious Diseases. Ntusi will succeed Dr. Glenda Gray, who has been the SAMRC President for the past decade.
AACR elects John Schiller as fellow
The American Association for Cancer Research has elected Dr. John T. Schiller, deputy chief, Laboratory of Cellular Oncology, at the National Cancer Institute, as a fellow for “championed research that has reduced the incidence of human papillomavirus (HPV)-associated cancers.” Schiller originally joined the laboratory as a postdoctoral fellow in 1983 and then went on to become chief of the lab’s Neoplastic Disease Section in 1998 and deputy lab chief in 2000. He received the NIH Distinguished Investigator designation in 2016.
Updated February 13, 2024
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