AMHS OFFICER LYNN SORBARA TO BE HONORED BY THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF ITALIAN AMERICAN WOMEN (NOIAW)

We are pleased to announce that AMHS officer Lynn Sorbara will be honored as one of the Three Wise Women by NOIAW in January 2019. Lynn will be recognized for her illustrious career in the medical field. Lynn is currently the Program Director for the Cancer Biomarker Research Group in the Division of Cancer Prevention of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In this role, she oversees the Biomarker Reference Laboratory cooperative agreement grants, the Lung Collaborative Group projects, the EDRN Industry Forum. She is the lead Program Director for a new Consortium for Early Cancer Assessment using Liquid Biopsy of the representative Program Director for the NCI Innovative Molecular Analysis Technologies (IMAT) and Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Programs. Her portfolio also includes grants focused on biomarkers for hematopoietic malignancies and new technologies for cancer detection. Congratulations Lynn! (submitted by Maria D’Andrea-Yothers).