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Barry Seifman of Farmington Hills
and Barb Fiorini of White Lake,
flank Professor Daphne Weihs of the
Technion of Haifa.

Cancer Society,
Technion Join
For Cancer Event

A

first-of-its-kind collabora-
tion between the American
Cancer Society (ACS) and the
American Technion Society (ATS) took
place March 29 at the Westin Hotel
Southfield. In keeping with the ACS
mission of “freeing the world from the
pain and suffering of cancer,” Technion
Professor Daphne Weihs shared her
expertise in metastatic cancer.
“At the Technion [in Haifa], collabo-
ration sparks global innovation,” Weihs
said, as she explained her research to 40
attendees, some of whom included the
Detroit medical and oncology commu-
nities at Henry Ford Hospital, St. John/
Providence, Karmanos Cancer Center
and Jewish Family Service. In addition,
many cancer survivors attended to ask
questions.
A second-generation scientist at the
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
in Haifa, Weihs was named one of the
top 50 influential women in Israel in
2015 and was inducted into the pres-
tigious Technion Integrative Cancer
Center (TICC).
The TICC is run by Professor Aaron
Ciechanover, who was awarded the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2004 for
discovering a cause of cancer. The
American Cancer Society provided
Ciechanover with his earliest funding
as a post-doctoral student in 1984. ACS
has funded 47 Nobel Prize-winning
cancer scientists.
In other ACS news, Israel became
the 23rd country to join Global Relay
for Life, which includes more than
5,000 communities in the U.S. raising
money for cancer through Relay for
Life. Miri Ziv, CEO of the Israel Cancer
Association, met with Ambassador
Sally Cowal, senior vice president of
ACS Global Cancer Control, at the
World Cancer Congress in 2014. Their
relationship grew and, this January,
Israel signed the partnership agree-
ment. Modi’in will hold its first annual
Relay for Life Oct. 6-7.
The West Bloomfield Relay for
Life begins at 10 a.m. Saturday, June
11-Sunday, June 12, at West Bloomfield
High School. For details, go to Relay.
acsevents.org.

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