National Cancer Institute Director to Hold Town Meeting at Duke

Niederhuber to hear from Duke community April 2

Monday, March 24, 2008

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Dr. John Niederhuber, director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) will hold a town hall meeting at 1:15 p.m. Wednesday, April 2, in the Schiciano Auditorium in the Fitzpatrick CIEMAS Building.

Niederhuber is a nationally renowned surgeon and researcher who  has dedicated his four-decade career to the treatment and study of  cancer -- as a professor, cancer center director, National Cancer Advisory Board chair;  external adviser to the NCI;  grant reviewer, and laboratory investigator supported by NCI and the National Institutes of Health.

The meeting is co-sponsored with the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Department of Surgery.

For more information, contact Mary Ruemker at 684-4056 or e-mail: mailto:mary.ruemker@duke.edu.