Tag: Awards
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Heinemann Receives 2025 Mentor of the Year Award
Feinberg’s Medical Faculty Council honored Allen Heinemann, PhD, the recipient of the 2025 Mentor of the Year award at a virtual and in-person workshop on May 5.
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Distinguished Molecular Biologist Delivers 2025 Kimberly Prize Lecture
Esteemed molecular biologist Ron Evans, PhD, known for his groundbreaking discovery of the nuclear receptor superfamily, delivered the third Kimberly Prize in Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics Lecture to a crowded auditorium of Feinberg faculty, staff, fellows and students on April 30.
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Shilatifard Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Ali Shilatifard, PhD, the Robert Francis Furchgott Professor and chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
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Feinberg Faculty Inducted to Prestigious Honor Societies
Six Feinberg faculty members have been inducted into the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) and the Association of American Physicians (AAP), two of the oldest medical honor societies in the U.S.
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Weese-Mayer Honored with 2025 Stern Award
Debra E. Weese-Mayer, MD, the Beatrice Cummings Mayer Professor of Pediatric Autonomic Medicine at Feinberg and Chief of the Center for Autonomic Medicine in Pediatrics at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, has been awarded the 2025 Paula H. Stern Award for Outstanding Women in Science and Medicine.
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Watson Named Hastings Center Fellow
Katie Watson, JD, professor of Medical Education, Medical Social Sciences in the Division of Determinants of Health, and of Obstetrics and Gynecology, has been named a 2024 Hastings Center Fellow.
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Young Physician-Scientist Awards Honor Feinberg Pathologists
Jonathan Chen, MD, PhD, assistant professor of Pathology in the Division of Molecular Pathology, and Waihay Wong, MD, PhD, assistant professor of Pathology, have been named recipients of the 2025 Young Physician-Scientist Award.
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Infectious Disease Expert Jennifer Jao to Help Lead AIDS Clinical-Trials Network
Jennifer Jao, MD, MPH, a pediatric infectious disease expert, has been selected as co-chair of the International Maternal Pediatric and Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials Network, funded by the NIH.
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2024 Year in Review
Feinberg experienced a year of stellar growth and scientific achievement in 2024, from honors and awards to unprecedented research discoveries.
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Esteemed Molecular Biologist Named Winner of 2025 Kimberly Prize
Distinguished biochemist Ron Evans, PhD, director of the Gene Expression Laboratory and professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, has been named the winner of the annual $250,000 Kimberly Prize in Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics.
