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Researcher shares Lasker Award Anne Saker Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK
Marjorie Valvano volunteering at the Cincinnati International Wine Festival. PROVIDED
Toasting Cincinnati’s ‘First Lady of Wine’ Melissa Reinert Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK
With more than seven decades in the wine industry, it’s time that the glasses be raised for Marjorie Valvano, a wellknown enthusiast in Cincinnati’s wine circle. “There’s no doubt that she is Cincinnati’s First Lady of Wine,” said Valvano’s friend Jeane Elliott. “Many rank Cincinnati in the top echelon of food and wine, noting a tradition of outstanding restaurants and award-winning wine lists. It’s easy to suggest that
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Marjorie was the lady in the forefront of education, inspiration, and enthusiasm for wine in our city. Earlier this month at a private party with friends, Valvano was toasted in honor of her 90th birthday. A few of H. & S. Pogue Company’s Wine Shop patrons were present for the celebration. Valvano served as manager and buyer for the storied Wine Shop when it opened in 1962, a time when wine was becoming a popular libation. According to Elliott, these former customers and acquaintances were eager to share cherished memories and
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wines acquired from Valvano some 30 years ago and to applaud the wonderful life she has led. Prior to her esteemed tenure at the beloved shop, Valvano and her late husband, Bob, lived in Italy for a year, where he became a fine chef. It was here that Valvano’s decades-long wine adventure blossomed. Back home, in the U.S., in 1947 Valvano worked as a secretary at Meier’s Winery in Silverton. “I accepted the position because it See VALVANO, Page 1A
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Cincinnati-born biology researcher C. David Allis, who grew up in Pleasant Ridge, received the nation’s most prestigious prize in medical research, sharing the 2018 Lasker Award for exploring how the structure of genes plays a role in childhood cancer and other diseases. Allis, 67, earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Cincinnati in 1973 and a doctorate in biology at Indiana University in 1978. He has been at C. David the Rockefeller UniverAllis sity in New York City since 2003 and is head of the Laboratory of Chromatin Biology and Epigenetics. The Lasker Award, established in 1942 by the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation, is such a significant national marker of scientific achievement that nearly 90 recipients have also won Nobel Prizes. The Lasker Award comes with $250,000. Allis, a 1969 graduate of Woodward High School, shared the award in basic medical research with Michael Grunstein of the University of California at Los Angeles for discoveries surrounding histones, the proteins that package the genetic material DNA within chromosomes. Once thought as mere tructural support for DNA, Allis and Grunstein separately learned that histones influence gene behavior. “Grunstein and Allis unveiled a previously hidden layer of gene control and broke open a new field,” the Lasker Award announcement said, An exuberant Allis told The Enquirer that a laurel such as the Lasker Award is a delightful surprise. “Maybe it’s the Cincinnati roots, and I don’t mean that in any negative way, but any of these prizes are just so remarkable, so unexpected. “We do what we do in the lab, if we choose to do lab work, because we’re genuinely curious about it. It’s a richly rewarding career just to inch the neeSee LASKER, Page 1A
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