ASH presents advocacy awards to Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Claude Lenfant, M.D.
(San Diego, Calif., December 5, 2003) The American Society of Hematology (ASH) will honor two leaders and champions of health research with this year's Advocacy Awards.... ...ASH will present the 2003 Public Service Award to Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), and the first-ever Outstanding Lifetime Service Award to Claude Lenfant, M.D., former Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) N...Statement from Dr. Claude Lenfant on discovery of the gene for primary pulmonary hypertension
.The discovery of the gene associated with the inherited form of primary pulmonary hypertension (PPH) by Drs. Jane H. Morse of Columbia University and James A. Knowles of the Columbia Genome Center is indeed a major breakthrough.. .Their study, funded in part by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health and published in the September issue of the American...