Charity News from Friday, Jun. 18, 2004Center for Smoking Cessation Research Established at DukeDuke University Medical Center | Duke University Medical Center officials Friday announced the launch of a new Center for Nicotine and Smoking Cessation Research. The center is an expansion and consolidation of the Duke Nicotine Research Program. Emory and State Launch Georgia's First Lupus Registry Emory University | For the first time in Georgia, a registry is being created to determine more precisely the number of systemic lupus erythematosus (lupus) patients in Fulton, DeKalb and Richmond counties. Cancer Gene Hunter Bert Vogelstein Receives Spain's Prince of Asturias Award for Science Johns Hopkins Medicine | Bert Vogelstein, M.D., cancer researcher at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, has been chosen for the 2004 Prince of Asturias Award for Scientific and Technical Research.
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