2008 Benefit Dinner & Live Auction
The American-Italian Cancer Foundation (AICF) hosted its annual
Benefit Dinner & Live Auction at The Racquet & Tennis
Club on Monday, November 17, 2008 under the leadership of the
event's Chair, Dottor Marco Tronchetti Provera, Chairman,
Pirelli & C., S.p.A.
Ronald Levy, MD and Lee M. Nadler, MD received The Alexander
Bodini Foundation Prize for Scientific Excellence in Medicine
for outstanding research that led to the successful development
of monoclonal antibodies for the treatment of
lymphomas. Emmy Award-winning journalist and
interviewer Charlie Rose was presented with the Alessandro di
Montezemolo Lifetime Achievement Award. Vincent T.
DeVita, Jr., MD, received the Cancer Service Award for his six
years of dedicated service as chairman of AICF's Scientific
Advisory Board.
Robert Bazell, Chief Science Correspondent, NBC News, and
Charles Gasparino, On-Air Editor, CNBC, served as co-Masters of
Ceremonies.
Ronald Levy, MD
Robert K. Summy and Helen K. Summy Professor of Medicine
Chief, Division of Oncology, Stanford University
Palo Alto, California
Lee M. Nadler,
MD
Senior Vice President,
Experimental Medicine
Dana-Farber Cancer
Institute
Boston,
Massachusetts
Charlie Rose
Emmy Award-Winning
Journalist and Interviewer
Dottor Marco Tronchetti Provera
Chairman
Pirelli & C., S.p.A.
2007 Benefit Dinner & Auction
AICF welcomed an enthusiastic crowd to the Benefit Dinner &
Auction at The Pierre Hotel on Monday, November 19, 2007.
The celebration recognized the accomplishments of The Alexander
Bodini Foundation Prize for Scientific Excellence in Medicine
winners John Mendelsohn, MD, President of the University of
Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and José
Baselga, MD, Chair & Professor of Medicine at the Hospital
General Universitari Vall d'Hebron in Barcelona for work that
led to the development and approval of two treatments with
widespread applications in both colon and breast cancer.
Joe Torre, Manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers and former
Manager of the New York Yankees, received the Alessandro di
Montezemolo Lifetime Achievement Award.
John Mendelsohn,
MD
President
The University of Texas,
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Houston,
Texas
José Baselga, MD
Chair & Professor of Medicine
Hospital General Universitari Vall d'Hebron
Barcelona, Spain
Joe Torre
Manager
Los Angeles Dodgers
