The ASCO Foundation of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Alexandria, Virginia, has announced the selection of fifty-eight cancer physicians as recipients of its 2005 Clinical Research Career Development Awards and Young Investigator Awards.

The program, one of the largest of its kind among professional medical societies, makes cash awards to leading young clinical oncologists across a broad range of specialties in support of clinical and translational cancer research. Each of the thirteen winners of this year's Clinical Research Career Development Awards — physicians in their second, third, or fourth year as full-time faculty members in a university setting — will receive a three-year grant totaling $170,100 to test a hypothesis or accomplish intended research. The forty-five recipients of the Young Investigator Awards — physicians in the final year of a fellowship program or in the first year post-fellowship — will each receive a one-year grant of $35,000.

"ASCO is committed to supporting clinical investigators early in their careers by encouraging and rewarding their development of promising research initiatives in all areas of cancer treatment," said Dr. James L. Abbruzzese, chair of the selection committee. Since 1984, the society has awarded more than $30 million to approximately four hundred and fifty researchers.

For a complete list of this year's recipients, see: http://www.asco.org/ac/1,1003,_12-002112-00_15-002104-
00_18-0039039-00_19-0039040-00_20-001,00.asp.