April 18, 2008

MGH Cancer Center honors scientist

The MGH Cancer Center is proud to honor outstanding scientists in the pursuit of eradicating cancer by scientific investigation. Recently, the Cancer Center bestowed its third annual Massachusetts General Hospital Award in Cancer Research to Titia de Lange, PhD, a professor at Rockefeller University, for her pioneering studies on the structure and function of mammalian telomeres. Daniel Haber, MD, PhD, director of MGH Cancer Center, presented the award to de Lange prior to her seminar April 4 at the MGH.

Outstanding: Haber, left, with de Lange