Two Cancer Researchers Named to Receive 1976 AAD Gruber Awards
Two internationally-known cancer researchers—one in Wisconsin, the other in California—have been named recipients of the 1976 American Academy of Dermatology Lila Gruber Awards.Charles Heidelberger, Ph.D., Madison, Wisc., will receive the Lila Gruber Honor Award "for major contributions to the understanding of cancer." Dr. Heidelberger has been affiliated with the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research for 25 years. He is the American Cancer Society Professor of Oncology at the University of Wisconsin's McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research and Associate Director of the Wisconsin Clinical Cancer Center.James E. Cleaver, Ph.D., San Francisco, Calif., will receive the Lila Gruber Research Award "to encourage active researchers working on problems related to cancer." Dr. Cleaver, a native of England, is Professor of Radiology at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine. He is affiliated with the university's Laboratory of Radiobiology.Both