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October 24, 2005
Carol L. Prives, PhD (Damon Runyon Fellow '68-'70) was elected to the Institute of Medicine, one of the highest honors that can be earned by a U.S. scientist. Dr. Prives is the DaCosta Professor of Biology and chair of the Department of Biological Sciences at Columbia University, where she studies how mutations in the p53 tumor suppressor gene contribute to cancer.