Local News in Brief : Cancer Institute Chief to Get Award

A $200,000 award for pioneering work in cancer therapy will be presented to Dr. Steven A. Rosenberg, chief of the surgical branch of the National Cancer Institute, it was announced by the Hammer Prize Foundation.

Dr. Armand Hammer, who is chairman of the President’s Cancer Panel, will give the special Hammer Cancer Prize for Adoptive Immunotherapy to Rosenberg at a luncheon Tuesday at the Westwood headquarters of Occidental Petroleum Corp.

Adoptive immunotherapy utilizes the body’s own immune system to destroy tumor cells.

Three years ago, Rosenberg was co-recipient of the $100,000 Hammer Prize for cancer research for his work relating to patients with advanced cancer, primarily malignant melanoma.