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March of Dimes awards $250,000 prize to 2 scientists who pioneered advances in skin disordersPublic release date: 30-Apr-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Elizabeth Lynch elynch@marchofdimes.com 914-997-4286 March of Dimes Foundation
Honorees revealed workings of skin stem cells and developed skin grafts for burn victims
WHITE PLAINS, NY April 30, 2012 Two scientists who have revolutionized the understanding of skin biology, creating crucial advances in treating skin cancers and other diseases as well as severe burns, have been chosen to receive the 2012 March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology.
Howard Green, MD, George Higginson Professor of Cell Biology, Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, and Elaine Fuchs, PhD, Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor, Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology & Development, Howard Hughes Medical Investigator, Rockefeller University, will share this year's prize.
Their work pioneered innovative technologies that explain the molecular underpinnigns of skin stem cells and inherited skin disorders, including cancers and some birth defects.
"Taken together, the research of Dr. Green and Dr. Fuchs has expanded medicine's ability to diagnose and understand the basis of many skin disorders, from cancer to inherited disorders to severe burns," said Joseph Leigh Simpson, MD, senior vice president for Research and Global Programs at the March of Dimes. "Their work has saved the lives of thousands of burn patients and we hope their work with skin stem cells will lead to new ways to prevent and treat birth defects."
Dr. Green and Dr. Fuchs have worked closely together. Dr. Fuchs is a former postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Green's lab, and throughout their careers they shared their scientific findings. Many of their findings have been translated into specific treatments.
Dr. Fuchs uncovered the genetic basis of blistering skin diseases and deciphered the characteristics of skin stem cells that allow them to develop into distinct tissues and organs. She also pioneered the use of reverse genetics, which studies protein functions and then determines what diseases occur when the proteins malfunction. She studies how skin stem cells become activated to form hair and skin, how they adapt to heal wounds, and how mutations in the activation process can lead to skin cancers, such as pilomatrichomas and squamous cell carcinomas. Her pioneering work holds promise for possible therapies for baldness.
Dr. Green, considered a founding father of regenerative medicine, developed a permanent skin restoration treatment that has saved the lives of thousands of burn victims.
He previously developed the first therapeutic use of cells grown in a lab. His worked laid the foundation for the discovery of genes that are responsible for genetic skin defects. He discovered that hybrid human and mouse cells lost their human chromosomes, leading to the methods used today for gene mapping.
Dr. Green and Dr. Fuchs will receive the Prize at a gala black-tie dinner and ceremony at the Fairmont Copley Plaza. They will deliver the Seventeenth Annual March of Dimes Prize Lectures at the Hynes Convention Center during the Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting. CBS sportscaster Greg Gumbel, member of the March of Dimes national Honorary Board of Trustees, will host the award ceremony.
Individuals who receive the March of Dimes Prize are leaders in the field of developmental biology. Their pioneering research offers hope for prevention and treatments for some of the most serious birth defects and other human diseases.
The March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology has been awarded annually since 1996 to investigators whose research has profoundly advanced the science that underlies the understanding of birth defects. The March of Dimes Foundation created the Prize as a tribute to Dr. Jonas Salk shortly before his death in 1995. Dr. Salk received Foundation support for his work to create a polio vaccine. The prize is a cash award of $250,000 and a silver medal in the design of the Roosevelt dime, in honor of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who founded the March of Dimes.
In its 17-year history, the March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology has been the crowning glory of a distinguished research career or a stepping stone on the path toward future honors for researchers. In fact, five past March of Dimes Prize recipients have gone on to win a Nobel Prize.
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The March of Dimes is the leading nonprofit organization for pregnancy and baby health. With chapters nationwide and its premier event, March for Babies, the March of Dimes works to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth and infant mortality. For the latest resources and information, visit marchofdimes.com or nacersano.org.
For more information contact:
Elizabeth Lynch, (914) 997-4286, ELynch@marchofdimes.com
Michele Kling, (914) 997-4613, MKling@marchofdimes.com
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March of Dimes awards $250,000 prize to 2 scientists who pioneered advances in skin disordersPublic release date: 30-Apr-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Elizabeth Lynch elynch@marchofdimes.com 914-997-4286 March of Dimes Foundation
Honorees revealed workings of skin stem cells and developed skin grafts for burn victims
WHITE PLAINS, NY April 30, 2012 Two scientists who have revolutionized the understanding of skin biology, creating crucial advances in treating skin cancers and other diseases as well as severe burns, have been chosen to receive the 2012 March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology.
Howard Green, MD, George Higginson Professor of Cell Biology, Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, and Elaine Fuchs, PhD, Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor, Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology & Development, Howard Hughes Medical Investigator, Rockefeller University, will share this year's prize.
Their work pioneered innovative technologies that explain the molecular underpinnigns of skin stem cells and inherited skin disorders, including cancers and some birth defects.
"Taken together, the research of Dr. Green and Dr. Fuchs has expanded medicine's ability to diagnose and understand the basis of many skin disorders, from cancer to inherited disorders to severe burns," said Joseph Leigh Simpson, MD, senior vice president for Research and Global Programs at the March of Dimes. "Their work has saved the lives of thousands of burn patients and we hope their work with skin stem cells will lead to new ways to prevent and treat birth defects."
Dr. Green and Dr. Fuchs have worked closely together. Dr. Fuchs is a former postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Green's lab, and throughout their careers they shared their scientific findings. Many of their findings have been translated into specific treatments.
Dr. Fuchs uncovered the genetic basis of blistering skin diseases and deciphered the characteristics of skin stem cells that allow them to develop into distinct tissues and organs. She also pioneered the use of reverse genetics, which studies protein functions and then determines what diseases occur when the proteins malfunction. She studies how skin stem cells become activated to form hair and skin, how they adapt to heal wounds, and how mutations in the activation process can lead to skin cancers, such as pilomatrichomas and squamous cell carcinomas. Her pioneering work holds promise for possible therapies for baldness.
Dr. Green, considered a founding father of regenerative medicine, developed a permanent skin restoration treatment that has saved the lives of thousands of burn victims.
He previously developed the first therapeutic use of cells grown in a lab. His worked laid the foundation for the discovery of genes that are responsible for genetic skin defects. He discovered that hybrid human and mouse cells lost their human chromosomes, leading to the methods used today for gene mapping.
Dr. Green and Dr. Fuchs will receive the Prize at a gala black-tie dinner and ceremony at the Fairmont Copley Plaza. They will deliver the Seventeenth Annual March of Dimes Prize Lectures at the Hynes Convention Center during the Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting. CBS sportscaster Greg Gumbel, member of the March of Dimes national Honorary Board of Trustees, will host the award ceremony.
Individuals who receive the March of Dimes Prize are leaders in the field of developmental biology. Their pioneering research offers hope for prevention and treatments for some of the most serious birth defects and other human diseases.
The March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology has been awarded annually since 1996 to investigators whose research has profoundly advanced the science that underlies the understanding of birth defects. The March of Dimes Foundation created the Prize as a tribute to Dr. Jonas Salk shortly before his death in 1995. Dr. Salk received Foundation support for his work to create a polio vaccine. The prize is a cash award of $250,000 and a silver medal in the design of the Roosevelt dime, in honor of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who founded the March of Dimes.
In its 17-year history, the March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology has been the crowning glory of a distinguished research career or a stepping stone on the path toward future honors for researchers. In fact, five past March of Dimes Prize recipients have gone on to win a Nobel Prize.
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The March of Dimes is the leading nonprofit organization for pregnancy and baby health. With chapters nationwide and its premier event, March for Babies, the March of Dimes works to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth and infant mortality. For the latest resources and information, visit marchofdimes.com or nacersano.org.
For more information contact:
Elizabeth Lynch, (914) 997-4286, ELynch@marchofdimes.com
Michele Kling, (914) 997-4613, MKling@marchofdimes.com
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NEW YORK (AP) ? Director Peter Sellars has won a special award along with four of the world's best singers.
On Sunday, the prestigious Opera News Awards went to the American theater whiz, and to Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky, German soprano Anja Silja, Swedish baritone Peter Mattei and Finnish soprano Karita Mattila.
Sellars says he "took the starch out of the Bugs Bunny version of opera" ? with productions like the wrenching story of how the nuclear bomb was created in composer John Adam's Grammy award-winning "Dr. Atomic."
With his trademark hair shooting straight up, Sellars accepted the award at Manhattan's Plaza hotel.
"Nothing in my life prepared me for this ballroom," the Pittsburgh native deadpanned to the bejeweled fans, including Princess Madeleine of Sweden.
For the seventh year, the opera magazine honored stars of an art form that still expresses today's emotions, "here and now," says the director who once set Wagner in an abandoned American Airlines terminal and Mozart with props including switchblades, guns, and drugs, and waist-up nudity.
Opera, he says, "is the deep end of the pool, where we get real," and the top singers "take this and transform it into something beautiful ... things we care about most."
On Sunday, they included Hvorostovsky, the silver-haired native of Siberia listed by People magazine as one of the 50 "most beautiful people," complete with his rich, liquid voice.
Silja's 62-year career is marked by the thrill of her modern acting, plus a voice that carries a tradition reaching back to the late Wieland Wagner, the composer's relative and her real-life soul mate.
Mattila opened a recent Met season in Puccini's "Tosca," broadcast live to movie theaters worldwide in high definition.
The award to Sellars was presented by American bass-baritone Eric Owens, who played the general directing the World War II bomb project in "Dr. Atomic." Several years ago, the work drew a young crowd to the Metropolitan Opera that filled cheaper seats with their backpacks ? and enthusiasm for a cutting-edge opera as fresh as a Broadway musical.
"People come because it's about a subject they're interested in," says the 55-year-old Sellars. "Opera can be cool, with sheer American energy ? jazz, and an R&B bass."
With his surprising, sometimes shocking direction, "people at first didn't know what hit them," says Opera News editor in chief F. Paul Driscoll. "Now, we appreciate his work for its emotional truth."
Bring Love Home this Mother?s DayJust in time for Mother?s Day, Hallmark Channel?s captivating saga returns with another touching film based on the best-selling Love Comes Softly series by Janette Oke.? Centering on family values in the 19th century, the heartwarming story, LOVE?S EVERLASTING COURAGE, enlightens on DVD May 8 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.Clark Davis (Wes Brown, ?True Blood?) struggles to maintain his land and support his family during a long drought.? With a bank loan to repay, his wife, Ellen (Julie Mond, ?General Hospital?) takes a job in town as a seamstress, but soon becomes ill with scarlet fever.? Devastated to lose his beloved wife, Clark and his young daughter turn to his parents for support.? Clark must find a way to save his farm and survive Ellen's death without losing the person he loves most: his daughter.Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, LLC (TCFHE) is a recognized global industry leader and a subsidiary of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, a News Corporation company. Representing 75 years of innovative and award-winning filmmaking from Twentieth Century Fox, TCFHE is the worldwide marketing, sales and distribution company for all Fox film and television programming, acquisitions and original productions on DVD, Blu-ray Disc Digital Copy, Video On Demand and Digital Download. The company also releases all products globally for MGM Home Entertainment. Each year TCFHE introduces hundreds of new and newly enhanced products, which it services to retail outlets from mass merchants and warehouse clubs to specialty stores and e-commerce throughout the world.Follow Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment on Twitter @FoxHomeEnt
My Thoughts:
The latest movie in the Love Comes Softly series is a bit of a twist in plot line. ?In previous movies, it was often the husbands that passed away, leaving the women to raise the children and take care of the homestead. ? The wife/mom passes away in this movie, so if you're looking for a film that doesn't make your mom cry, you might want to save watching this for the day after Mother's Day.
Even though I knew the plot ahead of time from reading the books and seeing the previous films, it still made me feel empathy for the characters. (The story of Clark and Ellen is a prequel to the first movie, Love Comes Softly, so if you like sequencing, you might want to start with Love Begins and work your way forward) ?The acting was very compelling and it showed how family leans on each other's strength in the midst of tragedy. ? Just because it's a great gift for mom doesn't mean that it's not a film for the whole family. ?Even my husband enjoys watching this with me. ?It has great family values and messages.
Giveaway: ?Two readers will win a copy of Love's Everlasting Courage on DVD!
Just use the Rafflecopter form below. ?You must be a US resident 18 or older to enter. ?If you do not do the mandatory entry, your entries will not count. ?This giveaway ends 5/14.
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