TCGA team a finalist for Sammies, People's Choice awards

The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) team has mapped thousands of genomes for more than thirty types of cancer to improve the ability to diagnose, treat and prevent cancer. Led by NHGRI's Carolyn Hutter and NCI's Jean Claude Zenklusen, the TCGA team is not only a finalist for the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals award (the "Sammies"), a contender for the inaugural People's Choice Award. People's Choice voting closes at 11:59 p.m. Eastern, Sept. 30, 2015. For more information about the Sammies and to vote, visit
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