Awards & Honors
March, 2012
Dr. Ronald Salem has been awarded the 2011 Leffell Prize for Clinical Excellence at Yale School of Medicine. Each year, the award recognizes a faculty member who best exemplifies clinical expertise, a commitment to teaching and the highest standards of care and compassion for patients. Dr. Salem has been a member of Yale Cancer Center and an oncology surgeon at Yale for over 20 years.
Nicholas Theodosakis, a third year MD/PhD student in the lab of Marcus Bosenberg, has received a $10,000 scholarship award from the Joanna M. Nicolay Melanoma Foundation.
Don Nguyen, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pathology and a member of the Yale Cancer Center Signal Transduction Research Program, has been awarded a 2012-2014 Young Investigator Award from the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) to support his research on metastatic lung adenocarcinoma. Dr. Nguyen will receive $80,000 over two years.
Seth Herzon, PhD, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and a member of the Yale Cancer Center Developmental Therapeutics Research Program, has been awarded a 2012 Sloan Research Fellowship, given to early career scientists whose achievements identify them as rising stars. Dr. Herzon will receive a $50,000 grant to further his research.
A commitee of medical peers has named Richard L. Edelson, MD, Chair and Aaron and Marguerite Lerner Professor of Dermatology, one of three National Physicians of the Year. The committee, assembled by the firm Castle Connolly Medical, chose Edelson from among 150 nominees for the award. He will receive the Clinical Excellence Award during a ceremony on Monday, March 26.
James Munro, a post-doctoral fellow in the laboratory of Walther Mothes, has received a grant from the Cancer Research Institute to utilize state-of-the-art imaging technologies to visualize HIV envelope protein (Env) molecules-the primary target for anti-HIV antibodies generated by the immune system. The grant is for three years of support, for a total of $160,000.
Srini Koduru, a postdoc in the laboratory of Madhav Dhodopkar, has received a Scholar-in-Training award from the American Association for Cancer Research for his abstract, "Induction of activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) by dendritic cells leads to genomic instability in human myeloma." He will be presented with the award at this year's annual meeting in April.
February, 2012
Narendra Wajapeyee, PhD, a member of the Yale Cancer Center Signal Transduction Research Program, has received a grant award from the Elsa U. Pardee Foundation for $100,000 for one year to support his project entitled, "Pre-Clinical Evaluation of IGFBP7 as a Lung Cancer Therapeutic."
Faye Rogers, PhD, has received the Norma Lies Mitchell Exceptional Project Grant from the Breast Cancer Alliance to support her research project, "Gene-targeted Apoptosis as a Therapeutic Strategy for HER2-positive Breast Cancer."
January, 2012
Valentina Greco, PhD, is the recipient of a 2012 Research Scholar Grant from the American Cancer Society to support her project Stem Cell Deregulation During Tumor Regression. She will receive $720,000 per year for four years to study and understand stem cell dynamics during tumor regression using a squamous cell carcinoma as a model system.
Leslie Blatt, APRN, was awarded the 2011 Safe Passage Award for Outstanding Clinical Care from the Connecticut Coalition to Improve End-of-Life Care at their annual meeting. The award is presented to a clinician in recognition of outstanding clinical contributions to the field of end-of-life care.
Janet Brandsma, PhD, and Malini Harigopal, MD, Assistant Professor of Pathology, received a $50,000 grant from the American Society of Cytology Foundation to study HPV16 DNA Methylation Frequency for the Improved Triage of ASCUS.
Don Nguyen, PhD, has been awarded a Young Investigator Research Grant from the National Lung Cancer Partnership.
Tian Xu, PhD, and Ruslan Medzhitov, PhDwere elected 2011 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science There are 17 YCC members who are fellows of the AAAS.
December 2011
The Breast Center at Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven completed the NAPBC survey process and has been awarded a three-year full accreditation. Learn more>>
September, 2011
Yung-Chi Cheng,PhD, was awarded a PO1 Grant from the NCI to explore PHY906, a 4-herb Chinese medicine in a clinical phase II setting as adjuvant therapy for Irinotecan based chemotherapy in advanced colon cancer. The grant is titled "Chinese Herbal Medicine as a Paradigm for Cancer Chemotherapy."
June 10, 2011
Ruslan Medzhitov, PhD, a member of the Yale Cancer Center Cancer Immunology Program, is one of three scientists awarded the prestigious Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine for 2011. Medzhitov has made groundbreaking contributions to the understanding of innate immunity, which provides immediate defense against infection.
Meena Moran, MD, has recently been nominated to join the editorial board of the Journal of Clinical Oncology (JCO). Dr. Moran is an Associate Professor of Therapeutic Radiology and a member of the Yale Cancer Center Radiobiology & Radiotherapy Research Program.
Anthony Koleske, PhD and Titus Boggon, PhD, both members of the Yale Cancer Center Signal Transduction Program, are the recipients of a 2011 Women's Health Research at Yale Pilot Grant, co-funded by Yale Cancer Center. Their research will focus on new drug development to selectively target breast cancer metastasis.
May 27, 2011
Dr. Vincent T. Devita, Jr. is co-editor on three recently published books: the 9th edition of the most popular cancer text in the world Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology, Primer of the Molecular Biology of Cancer, and Annual Advances in Oncology, Volume 2.
Abhijit Patel, PhD, Assistant Professor of Therapeutic Radiology, has been awarded a Junior Faculty Career Research Training Award from the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO). The award totals $200,000 over two years and will support his research to develop tumor-derived DNA in the blood as a cancer biomarker. Dr. Patel had received a Yale Cancer Center Pilot Award to initiate the project and will continue his work with the ASTRO funding.
Dr. Anees Chagpar and Dr. Francine Foss have been selected as two of 21 mentors nationwide for the 2011 ASCO IDEA (International Development and Education Award) Program. Following next week's ASCO meeting, both Dr. Chagpar and Dr. Foss will host a mentee from India at Yale Cancer Center and Smilow Cancer Hospital from June 8-10. Dr. Chagpar will host Anand Kumar Mishra from CSM Medical University and Dr. Foss will mentor Indranil Ghosh from ARI Hospitals.
Qin Yan, PhD and Tae Kim, PhD were selected as Stewart Fellows and will receive two years of funding to support their cancer research, totaling $150,000 per faculty member. The Alexander & Margaret Stewart Trust is a charitable foundation supporting nonprofit organizations researching, treating, and preventing cancer and pediatric illnesses.
May 13, 2011
Nita Maihle, PhD, Professor of Obstetrics/Gynecology and Pathology, Beth Jones, PhD, MPH, and Jason Wilken, PhD were awarded a $270,000 grant from Susan G. Komen for the Cure. The award will be used to study healthcare disparities in Hispanic women with breast cancer, and will support two trainees from backgrounds disproportionately affected by disparities in breast cancer.
Narendra Wajapeyee, PhD is the recipient of a Sidney Kimmel Scholar Award to support his project, Deciphering and Targeting RAS-mutant Cancers. Dr. Wajapeyee is an Assistant Professor of Pathology and a member of the Yale Cancer Center Signal Transduction Research Program.
April 29, 2011
William C. Sessa, PhD, a member of the Yale Cancer Center Developmental Therapeutics Program, has been named the Alfred Gilman Professor of Pharmacology. Dr. Sessa is an expert on blood vessel function and also Vice Chair of the department of pharmacology at Yale School of Medicine.
Qin Yan, PhD and Tae Hoon Kim, PhD, members of the Cancer Genetics and Genomics Program, have been selected as the 2011 Stewart Fellowships from Yale Cancer Center. The award is for $75,000 for each of the next two years.
April 15, 2011
Tracy Carafeno, RN, MS has been chosen by the American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) as a nurse leader fellow for 2011.
April 1, 2011
Melinda Irwin has been awarded a $1 million grant from the Society for Women's Health Research in partnership with the Susan G. Komen Foundation to study the link between exercise and breast cancer. The grant is shared with Dr. Jennifer Ligibel at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Dr. Deborah Dillon at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Abhijit Patel has been awarded the Yale School of Public Health Ovarian Cancer Early Detection and Prevention Research Award. The award of $105,000 will support his research into next generation sequencing for early detection of ovarian tumor DNA in blood.
Qin Yan was recently awarded a $100,000 grant from the Melanoma Research Foundation to study the Roles of Epigenetic Regulator JARID1B in Metastatic Melanoma.
March 18, 2011
Lynn Wilson has been named a trustee of the American Board of Radiology (ABR). His four-year term of service will begin July 1, 2011. ABR trustees participate in leadership and decision making to carry out the ABR's mission and set standards for the board certification process in radiology for initial certification and maintenance of certification. Dr. Wilson is certified by the ABR in radiation oncology.
March 4, 2011
Roy Herbst, MD and Benjamin Toll, PhD participated in a Congressional Briefing on tobacco control, the negative health consequences of smoking, and smoking cessation on March 1st, along with the U.S. Surgeon General. Dr. Herbst is chair of the American Association for Cancer Research's Task Force on Tobacco and Cancer.
Tish Knobf, PhD published an article in Coping with Cancer Magazine titled, "Recovery, Reappraisal, and Renewal After Cancer Treatment."
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February 4, 2011
Lynn Tanoue, MD, Professor of Internal Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care, and Co-Director of the Thoracic Oncology Program, will be awarded The Connecticut Thoracic Society Award Dr. Tanoue will receive the honor at the annual Breath of Spring Gala on April 8 in Simsbury.
