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Florence & Marshall Schwid Ovarian Cancer Research Fund
This research project is for one year at $50,000. This program is intended to support innovative research related to ovarian cancer and assists the investigator in bridging long term funding. All applications are reviewed by established investigators. The recipient must submit a progress report at six months and at the completion of the award.

Pamela Paley, M.D., was the 1999 recipient of this research grant for her application entitled, "A Molecular Fingerprint of Angiogenesis in Epithelial Ovarian Cancer".

GCF/National Cancer Institute (NCI) Research Training Fellowship
The awardee will study at the National Cancer Institute for 2 years for $50,000/year per trainee. Laboratories in all divisions of the NCI are available to this program. Applicants who are selected will be assisted in identifying the laboratory in which they will carry out their research. The applicant must have completed or be in the final year of an approved fellowship in gynecologic oncology. Each candidate is required to have three letters of recommendation, one of which must be from the director of the candidate's fellowship program. Monica Brown, M.D., began her Fellowship beginning in July 1999 for her project "Gene Expression Profiling in Ovarian Neoplasms". Amir Jazaeri, M.D., will begin his fellowship at NCI in July 2000 and carry out his clinical work at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Texas. Ginger Gardner, M.D., will begin her fellowship at NCI in July 2000 and carry out her clinical work at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York.

Fellow Award Winner
GCF is pleased to announce that David M. Kushner, MD, of the Cleveland Foundation, is the 1999 GCF Fellow Award Winner.