American Association for Cancer Research Honors Dr. Raymond DuBois

EIF's National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance congratulates Raymond DuBois, MD, who has been named the 2004 recipient of the Dorothy P. Landon-American Association for Cancer Research Prize in Translational Cancer Research.

This prestigious award honors Dr. DuBois' breakthrough research that showed how an enzyme known to cause arthritis pain and inflammation - cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) - plays a role in colon cancer development.

Dr. DuBois serves as a scientific medical advisor to EIF's NCCRA, which has provided grant funding of his COX-2 chemoprevention research. His medical practice is based at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center where he is the Hortense B. Ingram Professor of Molecular Oncology and Associate Director for Cancer Prevention, Control and Population-based Research.

To find out more about Dr. DuBois and the Landon Prize - visit: www.aacr.org/2004landonprizes.asp

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Contact:
Judi Ketcik
EIF's NCCRA
(818) 760-7722
jketcik@eifoundation.org