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People in the News: May 7, 2009

May 07, 2009
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The American Association for Cancer Research announced this week that its president, Tyler Jacks, has been elected into the National Academy of Sciences.

Jacks is currently the director of the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and is a professor at the Massachusetts Institutes of Technology. His research focuses on the genetics of cancer development, including the role that microRNAs play in the disease.

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