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MEDIA CONTACT: Elizabeth Crown at (312) 503-8928 or at e-crown@northwestern.edu
March 5, 2003
Cancer Researcher Receives Ann Landers Research
Fund Award
Northwestern University researcher Seema Singhal, M.D., has been
named the recipient of a $200,000 Ann Landers Research Fund Award
for her investigations into the genetic abnormalities associated
with multiple myeloma, a blood cancer that afflicts over 45,000 people
in the United States. About 15,000 new cases of multiple myeloma
are diagnosed annually.
Singhal is professor of medicine at the Feinberg School of Medicine and director
of the myeloma program in the division of hematology/oncology. She also is a
researcher at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern
University and a staff physician at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
The columnist Ann Landers, whose real name was Eppie Lederer, died of multiple
myeloma in June 2002.
The two-year Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation grant to Singhal is funded
by a $100,000 contribution from the Chicago Tribune Foundation and a matching
$100,000 gift from Lederer’s daughter, Margo Howard, through a research
fund she established after her mother’s death.
Singhal, who received the Ann Landers Research Fund Award at a dinner held on
March 4 in Chicago, is a leading authority on the use of novel therapies, including
hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, to treat myeloma. She also is studying
gene function in myeloma and exploring the use of adult stem cells to repair
heart and central nervous system damage.
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