Newswise — WASHINGTON, DC, November 18, 2011—The Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) today announced the 2011 AMP Award winners during the Association’s Annual Meeting in Dallas.
Winner of the prestigious AMP Award for Excellence in Molecular Diagnostics, Dr. Carlo M. Croce, MD is the John W. Wolfe Chair in Human Cancer Genetics and the Chairman of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics at Ohio State University. The recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the 2006 Clowes Memorial Award from the American Association for Cancer Research, Croce completed his medical training at the University of Rome in 1969.
AMP presented the Leadership Award to Margaret L. Gulley, MD from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Medicine. The Meritorious Service Award was given to co-editors of the AMP newsletter Teresita C. Redondo, MD and Marlene Sabbath-Solitare, PhD, from the St. Barnabas Medical Center.
AMP also recognized the following award recipients:• Intersociety Council for Pathology Information Trainee Travel Award – Nefize Sertac Kip, MD, PhD from Mayo Clinic; Christina Wojewoda, MD from the Cleveland Clinic Foundation• Minority Trainee Travel Award (FASEB MARC/ASIP) – M. Carmen Frias Kletecka, MD from the University of New Mexico• AMP Technologist Travel Award – Jamie Marola from National Jewish Health; Vijaya K. Rajagopal from Covance; Lihui Yin from the Blood Center of Wisconsin• AMP Technologist Award – Gladys Garrison from Vanderbilt University Medical Center; Caren Gentile from University of Pennsylvania Health System; C.J. Horton from Children's Medical Center Dallas• AMP Young Investigator Award – Elena Castellanos Rizaldos, PhD from Dana Farber Cancer Institute; Wesley O. Greaves, MD from The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center; Bryce Portier, MD, PhD from Cleveland Clinic
About AMPThe Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) is an international medical professional association dedicated to the advancement, practice, and science of clinical molecular laboratory medicine and translational research based on the applications of molecular biology, genetics, and genomics. For more information, please visit www.amp.org.
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