The J. Eugene Robinson Award is presented to an investigator who has made outstanding contributions to hyperthermic oncology. This lecture is to acknowledge the work of J. Eugene Robinson who was a pioneer in hyperthermic research for 20 years. He first used hyperthermia as an anti-cancer agent in the late 1960’s and continued his investigations in various areas related to hyperthermia including thermal dose and time-temperature relationships. Disciplines are rotated each year.

 

The STM Awards Committee is pleased to announce the recipient of the 2008 Robinson Award for outstanding achievements in the field of hyperthermic oncology:

Joan M.C. Bull, MD
Professor, Division of Oncology
University of Texas Medical School
Houston, Texas

"Whole Body Thermal Therapy and Chemotherapy:
Lessons Learned and Future Directions"
ICHO 2008 Meeting
Klinikum Grosshadern – Lecture Halls
Thursday, April 10th, 2008 4:30 pm

J. Eugene Robinson Award Recipients
1989 to Present

1989 – First
Biology
George M. Hahn (Stanford, CA)
“RIF-TR Cell Lines for the Study of Heat Resistance and Stress Tolerance”

1990 – Second
Medicine
Jens Overgaard (Aarhus, Denmark)
“Washington, D.C. – 15 Years Later Past Problems – Future Promises”

1991 – Third
Engineering
J. W. Strohbehn (Durham, NC)
“An Engineer Looks at Hyperthermia”

1992 – Four
At-Large
Mark W. Dewhirst (Durham, NC)
“Hyperthermia: From ‘Shotgun’ to Legitimate Therapy.”

1993 – Fifth
Biology
William C. Dewey (San Francisco, CA)
“Arrhenius Relationships from the Cell to the Clinic”

1994 – Sixth
Medicine
James R. Oleson (Tucson, AZ)
“Hyperthermia: From the Clinic to the Laboratory”

1995 – Seventh
Engineering
Robert B. Roemer (Salt Lake City, UT)
“When You’re Hot Your Hot; When You’re Not You’re Not- Jerry Lee Lewis’
Succinct Prediction of the Ups and Downs of Clinical Hyperthermia”

1996 – Eighth
Biology
Gloria C. Li (New York, NY)
“Mechanism of Thermotolerance: A Tale of Two Proteins”

1997 – Ninth
At Large
Peter M. Corry (Royal Oak, MI)
“Where To From Here?”

1998 – Tenth
Medicine
Daniel S. Kapp (Stanford, CA)
“Clinical Hyperthermia in an environment of managed care:
Efficacy, Toxicity, and Cost-effectiveness”

1999 – Eleventh
Physics
Thaddeus V. Samulski (Durham, NC)
“Past Progress and Future Possibilities for Thermal Therapy”

2000 – Twelfth
At Large
(changed to At-large from Biology, per Awards Committee (12/00)
Chang W. Song (Minneapolis, MN)
Program Held by ICHO

2001 – Thirteenth
Medicine
Jacoba van der Zee (The Netherlands)
“Controversies and commitment”

2002 – Fourteenth
Biology
Dennis B. Leeper (Philadelphia, PA)“Acidification-induced Sensitization to Thermoradiotherapy”

2004 – Fifteenth
Physics
Kullervo Hynynen (Boston, MA)
“Noninvasive Thermometry Combined with Noninvasive Energy Delivery:
Is Controlled Thermal Dose Delivery Finally a Clinical Reality”

2005 – Sixteenth
Medicine
Leonard R. Prosnitz (Durham, NC)
“Clinical Hyperthermia is Alive and Well”

2006 – Seventeenth
Biology
Joseph L. Roti Roti (St. Louis, MO)
“Heat-Induced Alterations of Nuclear Protein Associations and
Their Effects on DNA Repair and Replication”

2007 - Eighteenth
Physics
Paul Stauffer (Durham, NC)
"Barriers and Breakthroughs in the Evolution of Thermal Therapy"