Notables

Three Massachusetts reseachers have won grants to develop an HIV vaccine for children. The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation has awarded five grants amounting to a total of $1 million. The winners include Dr. Marylyn Addo of Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Dan Barouch of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Dr. Shan Lu of the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

Kim Lewis, director of the Antimicrobial Center at Northeastern University, has won a four-year, $1.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to investigate the genetics of multidrug tolerance in bacteria.

Tyler E. Jacks, director of the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, has been named president-elect of the American Association for Cancer Research.

Dr. Shawn Tsuda, a fellow in minimally invasive surgery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, took top honors at the Top Gun Laparoscopic Skills Shoot-Out during the annual meeting of the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons earlier this month in Philadelphia.To win, he had to show his suturing skill, depth perception, and instrument accuracy.

Michael V. Sack, president and CEO of Hallmark Health, was named a Grassroots Champion by the American Hospital Association. Hallmark Health is a healthcare system in Boston's northern suburbs.