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The Columbus Dispatch : Child cancer expert moving to Children's
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After 33 years as a top researcher at the nation's pre-eminent pediatric cancer center, Peter Houghton has decided to bring his life and lab to Columbus. Houghton left St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., to direct the Center for Childhood Cancer in the Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital.
Dr. Stephen Qualman, who died last year of pancreatic cancer, retired from the position in 2007 because of his illness.
Houghton, 60, who started this week, said he was attracted by the opportunity to build a prominent academic pediatric-cancer program and to expand on his work, which focuses on discovering new and better ways to treat childhood cancers. At St. Jude, he held several titles, including chairman of molecular pharmacy.
Cancer doctors and researchers here are abuzz about Houghton's move and about the potential to bring treatments to Columbus first. In addition to his work at Children's, he will serve as a leader of the emerging pediatric-oncology program at Ohio State University.
Hospital officials would not disclose what Houghton will be paid.
Dr. John Barnard, president of the Research Institute at Children's, said Houghton brings with him about $5 million in government and industry grants.
The majority of children -- about 80 percent -- are still alive five years after their cancer diagnosis. But doctors and researchers remain challenged to find successful treatments for the 20 percent who now don't survive; to improve the treatments that already exist; and to eliminate problems down the road, such as secondary cancers.
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