Boston researcher wins cancer award

E-mail|Link|Comments (0) Posted by Elizabeth Cooney January 22, 2009 03:28 PM

A Boston cancer researcher has won one of three national prizes awarded to early-career scientists working on novel approaches to fighting cancer.

John L. Rinn, a researcher at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and a faculty member of both the Broad Institute and Harvard Medical School, has received a three-year, $450,000 award from the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, the New York-based philanthropy announced today.

Rinn's research involves RNA molecules that may have a role in tumor formation and the spread of many types of cancer.

The other two awards went to Dr. Muneesh Tewari of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, for work on early detection of ovarian and lung cancers, and to Dr. Ivan Maillard and Dr. Yi Zhang of the University of Michigan for improvements in bone marrow transplant safety.

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Elizabeth Cooney is a former health reporter for the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, where she also was a business reporter and an editor. Earlier in her career, she edited medical books and journals at Little, Brown, and worked for Boston magazine.