Ohio State’s Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and 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 for Distinguished Achievement in Cancer. The lectureship supports an international competitive process which annually identifies an individual whose contributions to cancer research, patient care and/or education have received international recognition. In 2009, the monetary award was increased to $25,000, making the Block Memorial Lectureship Award one of the largest prizes awarded by an academic institution in the field of cancer.
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At this year's reception, Levi Garraway, MD, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Medical Oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School, and Senior Associate Member of the Broad Institute was honored with the 19th Annual Lectureship.
For more information about the Herbert and Maxine Block Memorial Lectureship, please contact The James Development Office at 614-293-3752 or email BlockLectureship@osumc.edu.