2008-09 Chapter Officers' Bios

Anita F. W. Frijhoff, PhD
McGovern Award Chair

Professional title & affiliation

Freelance medical editor

Professional background

Anita Frijhoff changed careers from bench scientist to writer/editor in 2001. At the Smithville campus of The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, she wrote about cancer research, education, and prevention. She also wrote and edited grant proposals, prepared presentations, created figures, and designed Web sites. Her biggest challenge was managing the production of an electronic atlas on mouse histology (for a demo, see www.histopages.com). Since January 2006, she has been a freelance, editing and writing manuscripts on all aspects of cancer research.

Other professional affiliations/offices held

• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Coordinator, AMWA Southwest Chapter Conference (2006)
• Assistant Program Chair, AMWA Southwest Chapter (2005-2006)

Education

• MS in Medical Biology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1986-1992
• PhD in Medicine, Leiden University, The Netherlands, 1992-1997

Training/courses/certifications

• Community college courses, such as advanced world wide web authoring and X/HTML, grammar, editing, and Spanish, 2002-2003
• Working toward AMWA core curriculum certificate, 2003-present

Presentations/publications

• Frijhoff AFW. How to create a user-friendly website. AMWA J 20:21-23, 2005.
• Frijhoff AF, Conti CJ, Senderowicz AM. Advances in molecular carcinogenesis: current and future use of mouse models to screen and validate molecularly targeted anticancer drugs. Mol Carcinog 39:183-194, 2004.
• Gavrielides MV, Frijhoff AF, Conti CJ, Kazanietz MG. Protein kinase C and prostate carcinogenesis: targeting the cell cycle and apoptotic mechanisms. Curr Drug Targets 5:431-443, 2004.
• Frijhoff AF, Conti CJ, Senderowicz AM. Second symposium of novel molecular targets for cancer therapy. Oncologist 7 Suppl 3:1-3, 2002.

In her own words

Being picky for a living…It doesn’t get any better than this!