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Alumni Activities

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James L. Gulley '95 has been selected to receive a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). This is the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers.

Dr. Gulley, who entered the tenure track at the National Institutes of Health in 2010, was recently tenured based on his leadership in the field of immunology for cancer. He has brought a vaccine developed in Laboratory of Tumor Immunology and Biology within the National Cancer Institute to its first human trials, initially through preliminary efficacy studies and now into a definitive phase 3 clinical trial. The randomized phase 2 study suggested a 44% reduction in the risk of death compared with the placebo. Dr. Gulley has also proposed a new paradigm to explain the delayed clinical benefit seen with immune therapies as a class.

Dr. Gulley lives with his wife Trenise and two children in Takoma Park, Maryland, and is active in the Sligo Seventh-day Adventist Church.

"Without my training at LLU," Dr. Gulley says, "I would not be where I am today."

Read the White House press release here.

 

 

Ronald Jaecks '81

Ronald Jaecks '81 is currently practicing as a general surgeon at Salem Hospital, Salem, Oregon and is Chief of Surgery for the Salem Division of Kaiser Permanente. Recently, he was installed as the President of the Oregon Chapter of the American College of Surgeons. Jaecks had just completed a two-year term as President-elect. He has represented the Oregon Chapter by lobbying legislators in Washington, D.C., concerning healthcare reform.

The Oregon Chapter of the American College of Surgeons newsletter, reporting on Dr. Jaecks' election as President, stated that he has excelled in advanced laparoscopy including laparoscopic colon resections, hernia repairs, anti-reflux surgery and single port surgery.

Dr. Jaecks commented on his two-year term by stating that "it is a high honor to serve my profession in this way and to be entrusted with the Presidential responsibilities."

(Submitted by Lenard Jaecks)

 
 

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