You could use the get_term_by() function: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_term_by
// get the category object
$category = get_term_by( 'id', $category_id, 'category');
// use the object to get your values
$name = $category->name;
$slug = $category->slug;
Does this help?
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