Stanford Report, April 14, 2004
	Medical center people   Linda Giudice, MD, PhD, the Stanley McCormick Memorial Professor, was elected president of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation beginning in March 2006. The society, a nonprofit international organization to promote excellence in gynecology and obstetrics, reproductive medicine and gynecologic surgery, has nearly 1,000 members. Giudice also was appointed to a National Institutes of Health blue ribbon panel for review of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development intramural research program. Postdoctoral scholars Daniel A. Colon-Ramos, PhD, Alain Laederach, PhD, Bosiljka Tasic, PhD, Meng-Fu Bryan Tsou, PhD, and Sarah M. Wignall, PhD, were awarded three-year fellowships by the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation for theoretical and experimental research relevant to cancer, its causes, mechanisms, therapies and prevention. Colon-Ramos, sponsored by Kang Shen, MD, PhD, will focus on "Directing behavior by altering synaptic specificity in C. elegans;" Laederach, by Russ B. Altman, MD, PhD, on "Elucidating the molecular mechanisms of RNA folding: a combined modeling and experimental study;" and Tasic, by Liqun Luo, PhD, on "Labeling single neurons with their synaptic partners -- characterization of higher olfactory circuits in Drosophila." Tsou, sponsored by Tim Stearns, PhD, will work on "Cell cycle control of centrosome duplication" and Wignall, by Anne Villeneuve, PhD, on "Investigating meiotic chromosome segregation in C. elegans."