Jonathan Simons, M.D. (left), director of the Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University, is congratulated after being given the first Donald S. Coffey PCF Physician-Scientist Award for his contributions to prostate cancer research. Left to right: Simons; PCF Chairman Mike Milken; Don Coffey, Ph.D., director of the Research Laboratories of the Department of Urology at Johns Hopkins University; and Stuart 'Skip' Holden, M.D., medical director of the PCF (Prostate Cancer Foundation). Simons was one of 350 of the most highly-regarded scientific thought leaders in prostate cancer research to attend the 2003 Prostate Cancer Foundation Scientific Retreat, which featured three days of scientific presentations, poster sessions and intense dialogue regarding clinical data, new discoveries, emerging treatment strategies and policies to accelerate drug discovery and development. |