1998 Senior Research Award Winners
Keith Stewart, MD
Toronto General Hospital
"Myeloma Vaccine Development"
Freda Stevenson, DPhil
Southampton University in the United Kingdom
"Genetic Vaccination against Multiple Myeloma."
Kris Thielemans, MD, PhD
Vrije Universiteit Brussels
"Cell Therapy of Multiple Myeloma-Induction of an anti-MAGE Response"
Henk Lokhorst, MD, PhD
University Hospital, The Netherlands
"Adoptive T-Cell Therapy in Multiple Myeloma."
1998 Fellows' Award Winners
Dharminder Chauhan, PhD
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
"The Role of Proline-Rich Tyrosine Kinase PYK2 in Dexamethasone-Induced Apoptosis in Multiple Myeloma Cells"
Rafael Fonseca, MD
Mayo Clinic, Rochester
"Identification and Characterization of 14q32 Translocations in Patients with Monoclonal Gammopathy of Undetermined Significance"
Anders Osterborg, MD
Karolinska Hospital, Sweden
"Idiotypic Immunization of Multiple Myeloma Patients Using the Autologous M-protein in Combination with IL-12 or IL-12 and GM-CSF"
Pulivarthi Rao, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
"Identification of Genetic Markers during Multistep Malignant Transformation of Multiple Myeloma"
Yu-Tzu Tai, PhD
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
"Variants of Ku86 Autoantigen are Preferentially Expressed in Multiple Myeloma and Required for Malignant Transformation"