The World Technology Network (WTN) awarded the 2005 WTN Award in Media and Journalism to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center President Harold Varmus and his colleagues at the Public Library of Science (PLoS). The WTN, "a global meeting ground and a virtual think tank," focuses on the business and science of emerging technologies.
PLoS is a nonprofit coalition of scientists dedicated to making scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. PLoS publishes several open access journals that can be found at www.plos.org.
Joan Massagué, Chairman of the Cancer Biology and Genetics Program, is among the recipients of the 2005 Mayor's Awards for Excellence in Science and Technology. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced the winners of the awards in January, honoring the City's most outstanding scientists and engineers.
Dr. Massagué received the award in Biological and Medical Sciences. His research interest is in cell regulation and cancer -- specifically in the action of growth factors and the mechanisms of cancer metastasis.
