Dr. David Alberts, a University of Arizona cancer researcher, has been honored with a major international award for his contributions to the field of cancer prevention.

The award, presented annually to a scientist for his or her seminal cancer prevention work in the international community, is bestowed jointly by the American Association for Cancer Research and the Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation.

Alberts, a Regents professor at the UA College of Medicine and director of the Cancer Prevention and Control division at the Arizona Cancer Center, will accept the award at the International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research next month in Seattle.

"This is not so much an acknowledgement of my personal work, but of the outstanding research expertise of our cancer prevention and control faculty within the Arizona Cancer Center," Alberts said. The Arizona Cancer Center's prevention program, one of the largest in the United States, recently won its largest project grant, a $19.5 million award from the National Cancer Institute to study novel chemopreventive agents for skin cancer.

Alberts, appointed to the directorship of the Cancer Prevention and Control division of the Arizona Cancer Center in 1989, was named a UA Regents professor in 2004. He has received continuous funding for his clinical and lab research on cervix, colon, skin, prostate, and breast cancer from the NCI since 1971, and is co-editor-in-chief of the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention.

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UA news release, 09/04/2004