Dr. Gail Bishop, Professor of Microbiology, was selected for this year’s Donald D. Dorfman Research Award from the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center, at the University of Iowa. She was chosen for the award for her paper entitled “Nuclear TRAF3 is a negative regulator of CREB in B cells,” published this year in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. which furthered her work in lymphoma research. The authors show for the first time that TRAF3 is a resident nucleus protein that associates with the transcriptional regulator cAMP response element binding protein (CREB) in B lymphocytes. Their results identify a new mechanism by which nuclear TRAF3 regulates B-cell survival via inhibition of CREB stability, information highly relevant to the role of TRAF3 in B-cell malignancies. Dr. Bishop was presented with the cash award at a luncheon last week with members of the Dorfman Family in attendance.