Dr. George Klein is 2008 Block Lectureship Award Recipient
The Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute is proud to work with the Block family to recognize leadership in the field of cancer through the Herbert and Maxine Block Memorial Lectureship Award for Distinguished Achievement in Cancer.
 The proceeds from the Herbert J. Block Memorial Golf Tournament fund the Herbert and Maxine Block Memorial Lectureship Award for Distinguished Achievement in Cancer. The award is given annually by The James to a renowned cancer researcher who visits The Ohio State University to accept the honor and lecture about his or her work.
The Block family and Ohio State are excited to announce that George Klein, MD, PhD, professor emeritus of Molecular and Tumor Biology Center at Karolinska Institute, Sweden, has been named the 2008 awardee. Internationally renowned for his contribution to human health through his discoveries in cancer immunology, Dr. Klein will travel to Columbus in September to accept the award and present the lecture.
Since the establishment of the award in 1992, the Block Memorial Lectureship Award recipients include (titles and institutions listed for the awardees relate to the award date):
- Samuel Broder, MD, former director of the National Cancer Institute
- Robert Young, MD, president, Fox Chase Cancer Center (Philadelphia)
- Bert Vogelstein, MD, renowned genetics researcher from The Johns Hopkins Oncology Center (Baltimore)
- Judah Folkman, MD, Andrus Professor of Pediatric Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Children’s Hospital (Boston)
- V. Craig Jordan, PhD, DSc, professor of Pharmacology and director of the Breast Cancer Research Program at the Robert H. Lurie Cancer Center, Northwestern University Medical Center
- Barbara Rimer, DrPH, director, Division of Cancer Control and Population Science, National Cancer Institute
- Richard Klausner, MD, director of the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
- John Potter, MD, PhD, director of the Cancer Prevention Research Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
- Donald Coffey, PhD, professor of Urology, Oncology, Pathology, Pharmacology and Molecular Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- David Botstein, PhD, professor and chair, Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine
- Daniel Von Hoff, MD, professor of Medicine, Molecular and Cellular Biology, and Pathology; director, Arizona Cancer Center, University of Arizona
- Carlo Croce, MD, professor and chair of the Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics at Ohio State, and director of the Human Cancer Genetics Program at OSU (former director of the Kimmel Cancer Institute/Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, in Philadelphia)
- Larry Norton, MD, medical oncologist leader of the Breast Disease Management Team at Memorial Sloan- Kettering Cancer Center in New York
- C. Norman Coleman, MD, Director, Radiation Oncology Services Program, National Cancer Institute
- Steven A. Rosenberg, MD, PhD, Chief of Surgery, National Cancer Institute and Professor of Surgery, Uniformed Services University of Heath Sciences and the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
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