M.D. Anderson finally gets NAS member: President DePinho

Dr. Ronald DePinho The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, top ranked for its clinical care but not its scientific discovery, finally has a scientist in the nation’s most august body of scientists. Dr. Ronald DePinho, who became M.D. Anderson’s fourth president last summer and immediately announced plans to improve the research hospital’s basic sciences, this week� was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. The center’s previous lack of an NAS member had been considered a symbol of M.D. Anderson’s undistinguished standing in basic sciences. DePinho’s labratory research “uncovered the mechanism for the increasing risk that advancing age confers on the development” of certain cancers, says the NAS [...]

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