Archive for August 2005
August 29, 2005
Search Committee Appointed for São Paulo Branch Director Succession
(New York, August 29) — The Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (LICR) today announced that it has formed a search committee to identify candidates to succeed Dr. Ricardo R. Brentani as Director of the São Paulo Branch in Brazil. The search committee is comprised of Dr. Sam Hellman, former Dean of the University of Chicago School of Medicine, Dr. Harald zur Hausen, former Director of the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, and Dr. Erney de Camargo, President of Brazil’s National Council for Scientific and Technological Development. Dr. Brentani will retire December 31st this year after 22 years in that position. The São Paolo Branch is the second-largest of the Institute’s nine Branches with approximately 140 staff and students.
August 1, 2005
LICR Cover for Nature Neuroscience
Research into the formation of neurons during embryogenesis (Stockholm Branch) was featured on the front cover of Nature Neuroscience this month, with a dramatic image of fluorescently labeled transcription factors in the spinal cord of an embryonic chick.