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Deputizing for HM, Prince Talal honors cancer research winners
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AMMAN —
Deputizing for His Majesty King Abdullah, HRH Prince Talal honored the
researchers who won the King Hussein Award for Cancer Research 2022, according
to a press statement by the King Hussein Cancer Center.اضافة اعلان
The awards were granted in a ceremony organized by the King Hussein Cancer Foundation and Center, in the presence of the center’s Chairperson of the Board of Trustees HRH Princess Ghida Talal, along with HRH Princess Sumaya Bint Hassan.
During the ceremony, Princess Ghida said that by “celebrating the achievements of this years’ winners of the King Hussein Award for Cancer Research, we pledge to advance cancer research in the Arab world for a future where cancer does not have the last word, God willing.”
Prince Talal presented the honorary shields to the seven winners from Jordan, the UAE, Lebanon and the US, out of 137 advanced researchers from 16 countries.
The list of honorees included the winners of the King Hussein Award for Cancer Research, which are:
• Ali Bazarbashi, a professor at the American University of Beirut, for the Lifetime Achievement Award in the Regional Track;
• Elias Jabbour, a professor from the MD Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas, USA, for the Lifetime Achievement Award in the International Track;
• Hassan Hashem from the King Hussein Cancer Center and Gibran Saleh Mohammed from the University of Sharjah, for the Promising Researcher grant;
• Ahmed Salem from the Hashemite University (HU), for the Emerging Researcher Award in the Regional Track;
• Jawad Faris from Northwestern University’s McGaw Medical Center, for the Emerging Researcher Award in the International Track;
• King Hussein Cancer Center’s tobacco dependence program, represented by Noor Obeidat for the Distinguished Clinical Program Award.
The King Hussein Award for Cancer Research is one of the most important awards for scientific research in the field of cancer in the Arab world.
It was launched in 2020 in memory of the late King Hussein, with the aim of encouraging Arab researchers and scientists from all over the world to participate in raising the level of research, and its development in order to understand the characteristics of cancer in the region, and studying Arab genes in particular, so that we can confront and defeat cancer by advanced scientific methods.
The honoring ceremony was attended by ministers, members of the award’s board of directors, consisting of a group of the most important oncologists, doctors and researchers from all around the world, media professionals, partners and supporters of the award.
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The awards were granted in a ceremony organized by the King Hussein Cancer Foundation and Center, in the presence of the center’s Chairperson of the Board of Trustees HRH Princess Ghida Talal, along with HRH Princess Sumaya Bint Hassan.
During the ceremony, Princess Ghida said that by “celebrating the achievements of this years’ winners of the King Hussein Award for Cancer Research, we pledge to advance cancer research in the Arab world for a future where cancer does not have the last word, God willing.”
Prince Talal presented the honorary shields to the seven winners from Jordan, the UAE, Lebanon and the US, out of 137 advanced researchers from 16 countries.
The list of honorees included the winners of the King Hussein Award for Cancer Research, which are:
• Ali Bazarbashi, a professor at the American University of Beirut, for the Lifetime Achievement Award in the Regional Track;
• Elias Jabbour, a professor from the MD Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas, USA, for the Lifetime Achievement Award in the International Track;
• Hassan Hashem from the King Hussein Cancer Center and Gibran Saleh Mohammed from the University of Sharjah, for the Promising Researcher grant;
• Ahmed Salem from the Hashemite University (HU), for the Emerging Researcher Award in the Regional Track;
• Jawad Faris from Northwestern University’s McGaw Medical Center, for the Emerging Researcher Award in the International Track;
• King Hussein Cancer Center’s tobacco dependence program, represented by Noor Obeidat for the Distinguished Clinical Program Award.
The King Hussein Award for Cancer Research is one of the most important awards for scientific research in the field of cancer in the Arab world.
It was launched in 2020 in memory of the late King Hussein, with the aim of encouraging Arab researchers and scientists from all over the world to participate in raising the level of research, and its development in order to understand the characteristics of cancer in the region, and studying Arab genes in particular, so that we can confront and defeat cancer by advanced scientific methods.
The honoring ceremony was attended by ministers, members of the award’s board of directors, consisting of a group of the most important oncologists, doctors and researchers from all around the world, media professionals, partners and supporters of the award.
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