2013 SHUBITZ CANCER PRIZE
Alum honored for cancer research Todd Golub, MD’89, received the 2013 Simon M. Shubitz Cancer Prize and Lectureship in October. Michelle Le Beau, PhD, the Arthur and Marian Edelstein Professor of Medicine and director of the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center, presented the honor. Golub is founding core member, chief scientific officer and director of the cancer program at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medicial School and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. Todd Golub, MD’89, and Michelle Le Beau, PhD
MENTORSHIP AND DISCOVERY
Pritzker students awarded research fellowships Several Pritzker students have been chosen for national and institutional fellowships. Students will work with faculty mentors throughout the 201314 academic year. Kirk C a hill, MS3, and Ramin Morshed, MS3, were selected to participate in t h e pre s t i g i ou s How ard Hughes Medical Institute Medical Research Fellows Program. Morshed is working with Maciej S. Lesniak, MD, to develop a system to deliver chemotherapeutic agents while allowing for MR tracking of neural stem cell carriers. Cahill is working with Bakhtiar Yamini, MD, on a project involving targeting Bcl-3 in glioblastoma. Kimberly Clinite, MS4 was awarded the Pritzker Fellowship. She is working with faculty mentor Shalini Reddy, MD, to study how medical education impacts students’ p e rc e pt i on of phy s i c i an lifestyle. Liese Pr uitt, MS4, was named as an award winner uchospitals.edu/midway
by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF) with support for a Clinical Research Mentorship. These competitive grants are intended to support the development of a mentoring relationship between a DDCF clinical scientist and a medical student with an interest in becoming a future clinician investigator. Pruitt’s faculty mentor is Olufunmilayo I. O l op a d e for h e r proj e c t “Understanding Social and System Delays That Lead to Late Diagnosis of Breast Cancer in Southwestern Nigeria.” Kunmi Sobowale, MS4, is receiving support from the Fogarty Fellowship and from the Pritzker Fellowship for his project “Barriers to Care and Their Role on Effectiveness of Task-Shifting Mental Health Care in Vietnam.” Sobowale is working with Bahr Weiss, PhD, of Vanderbilt University to study barriers to care with the broader goals of ensuring proper delivery of depression treatment.
2 0 1 3 S U M M E R R E S E A R C H AWA R D S
Medical students honored for excellence in research
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he 19th Annual Pritzker Summer Research Program provided rising second-year students with the opportunity to delve into a scholarly area of interest over the course of 11 weeks. Students worked with faculty mentors throughout the summer to conduct the research on a well-defined project and then presented their work to a panel of faculty judges at the Summer Research Forum in August. Awards of excellence were granted to Kevin Wymer, Caitlin Chicoine, Robin Wagner, Carrie Kuhn, Amrita Mukhopadhyay, Megan Silas, Jennifer Houpy, James Lloyd, and David Xu. Honorable mentions for excellence were awarded to Camille Cross, Allison Louis, Omar Malas, Leslie Mataya, Michael Ramirez, Bryan Scott, Kathryn Sullivan, Adam Weiner and Nathaniel Wilson. The program is indebted to the counsel of faculty advisers Vineet Arora, MD, MA’03, associate professor of medicine and assistant dean for scholarship and discovery; Eugene Chang, MD, the Martin Boyer Professor of Medicine; V. Leo Towle, PhD, professor of neurology; David Meltzer, MD’93, PhD’92, associate professor of medicine; and William McDade, MD’90, PhD’88, associate professor of anesthesia and critical care, and deputy provost for research and minority affairs.
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