Stanford Report, April 7, 2004
	Medical center people   Sam Gambhir, MD, PhD, professor of radiology, was named Distinguished Basic Scientist of the Year by the Academy of Molecular Imaging. Gambhir, director of the Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford and division chief of nuclear medicine, has developed new reporter gene/reporter probes that are being used in cell trafficking models, gene therapy models and in transgenic models for studying cancer biology. He received the award last month at the AMI annual meeting in Orlando, Fla. Jonathan Pollack, PhD, assistant professor of pathology, was named recipient of a one-year $100,000 grant from the Lustgarten Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer selected by a panel of national experts in pancreatic and other cancers. Pollack will receive the award for his research project titled “Locating novel pancreatic cancer genes with DNA microarrays.” David Stevenson, MD, the Harold K. Faber Professor of Pediatrics and senior associate dean for academic affairs, received the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Mentor Award for Excellence in Research Training. Stevenson is director of the Training Program in Developmental and Neonatal Biology, chief of neonatal and developmental medicine and director of the Johnson Center for Pregnancy and Newborn Services. The NICHD award acknowledges Stevenson, who is principal investigator of the NICHD Neonatal Research Network at Stanford, and colleagues for mentoring skills and for guiding the program’s research trainees. The associate program directors for the grant are Helen M. Blau, PhD, Baxter Professor of Pharmacology; Margaret T. Fuller, PhD, professor and chair of developmental biology; and Lou Halamek, MD, associate professor of pediatrics. The training grant is administered by Siv Modler, pediatric research study coordinator.