Pitt Chronicle

Barry London, the Harry S. Tack Professor of Medicine and chief of the Division of Cardiology in Pitt’s School of Medicine, was named one of 16 NIH (National Institutes of Health) Director’s Pioneer Award recipients at the 2008 Pioneer Award Symposium on NIH’s Bethesda, Md., campus. London is the first Pitt faculty member to receive the distinction.

This is the printed version of the report delivered by Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg at the June 27, 2008, annual meeting of the University of Pittsburgh Board of Trustees.

University of Pittsburgh scientists are uncovering more evidence that a virus they recently discovered is the cause of Merkel cell carcinoma, an aggressive and deadly form of skin cancer.