Hats Off
A round-up of selected awards and honors
Arash Alizadeh, MD '03, PhD '03, CRT '06, MF '08, assistant professor of oncology at Stanford, is among the 16 winners of a 2011 Doris Duke Clinical Scientist Development Award. The grant aids junior-physicians in their transition to independent clinical research careers. Alizadeh earned the funding to support his project, "Genomic Approaches for Targeting Risk in Hematological Malignancies."
Scott Boyd, MD, PhD, MF '08, CRT '09,assistant professor in the Department of Pathology, is a 2011 recipient of the New Scholar Award in Aging, presented by the Ellison Medical Foundation. The New Scholar program supports promising new investigators in biological sciences related to understanding lifespan development processes and age-related diseases and disabilities.
Dominik Fleischmann, MD, PD '98,was promoted to professor of radiology at Stanford. Among his clinical and research interests are noninvasive cardiovascular imaging, image post-processing, and CT technology. Fleischmann also serves as chief of cardiovascular imaging in the Department of Radiology and director of computed tomography at Stanford Hospital & Clinics.
Cheryl Gore-Felton, PhD '97, MF '99, associate chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, was named a 2011-2012 fellow in the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine Program for Women at Drexel University College of Medicine. Gore-Felton is one of 54 fellows selected to be part of the only national program focused on preparing senior women faculty for leadership positions at academic health centers.
Maxence Nachury, PhD, PD '05,assistant professor of molecular and cellular physiology at Stanford, received the 2011 Early Career Life Scientist Award presented by the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB). Nachury was recognized for work in two areas of cell biology: ran-regulated spindle assembly, and the nature of the ciliary compartment. He has also been part of the effort to better understand the process of tubulin acetylation. Nachury is scheduled to receive the award this December at the ASCB annual meeting in Denver.
Adolf Pfefferbaum, MD, CRT '75,emeritus professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, and Edith Sullivan, PhD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, both at Stanford, were named recipients of the Research Society on Alcoholism's (RSA's) 2011 Distinguished Researcher Award. The joint award is unusual for the RSA, but the pair was chosen for their 20 years of collaborative work on the intricate structure-function relationships of alcohol-induced brain damage. Pfefferbaum and Sullivan received the award in June at the 2011 RSA Scientific Conference in Atlanta.
Robert Siegel, '76, MA '77, MD '90, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Program in Human Biology, and Center for African Studies, was named a 2011 winner of the University's highest honor for faculty, the Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching. Siegel's commitment to developing new teaching materials and approaches, and to helping students understand the impact of HIV and other viruses, as well as his oversight of integrating medical microbiology courses into a new medical school curriculum were among the reasons Siegel was recognized.
Jean Tang, MD '03, PhD '03,assistant professor of dermatology at Stanford, earned a clinical investigator award from the Damon Runyan Cancer Research Foundation. The award is part of the foundation's Accelerating Cancer Cures program, a new model of collaboration in cancer research aimed at supporting 50 clinical investigators over the next five years. Through her research on identifying new ways to treat and prevent nonmelanoma skin cancer, Tang is focused on characterizing mechanisms of drug resistance in treatment of the disease.
Kevin Wang, '97, MS '97, MD, PhD, MF '10,instructor in dermatology at Stanford, is one of 10 recipients of the 2011 Career Awards for Medical Scientists, presented by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. The five-year grant will support Wang's project, "Mechanisms of Transcriptional Regulation by Long Noncoding RNAs in Partnership with Chromatin Modifying Complexes."