David W Kingsbury of the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., will become senior scientific officer of the How- ard Hughes Medical Institute, Bethesda, Md., in July. Kingsbury’s research has focused on the virology of paramyxoviruses. He joined the hospital’s division of virology and molecular biology in 1963.

Alan W Steiss, associate provost for research and director of sponsored programs at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Va., will become director of the University of Michigan’s Division of Research Development and Administration this month.

Janet Davison Rowley, Blum-Riese Distinguished Science Professor at the University of Chicago Franklin McLean Memorial Research Institute, and Melvyn Francis Greaves, director of the Leukemia Research Fund Centre of the Institute of Cancer Research in London, were awarded the 1988 King Faisal International Prize in medicine. Rowley, honored for her research in leukemia, is the first woman to win...

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