The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's largest and most exciting recent initiative is the Specialized Center of Research (SCOR) program. Created in 2000, SCOR grants fund some of the world's best scientists, who work in interdisciplinary teams to battle these deadly diseases. Each award is $7.5 million over five years.

This year's recipients are:

• Stephen D. Nimer, M.D., who is leading the investigations of top researchers from New York City's famed Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Rockefeller University. Their focus is on how genetic lesions lead to the development and progression of leukemia.

• Carl H. June, M.D., who is overseeing research teams from the Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. They are working on a variety of patient-specific cellular therapies.

• Jerry M. Adams, Ph.D., whose team of Australian researchers at the renowned Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne, Australia, is first international group to receive a SCOR grant. They are investigating new medicines for lymphoma.

Source: Leukemia and Lymphoma Society

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