Harvard Medical School (HMS) Awards & Recognitions: November 2013
Harvard Medical School (HMS) Awards & Recognitions: November 2013
Shelly Greenfield, HMS professor of psychiatry at McLean Hospital, was recently awarded the R. Brinkley Smithers Distinguished Scientist Award from the American Society of Addiction Medicine. Greenfield has been invited to receive the award and deliver the keynote plenary address at the society’s annual medical scientific conference in April 2014 in Orlando, Fla.
Greenfield, chief academic officer and chief of the Division of Women’s Health as well as director of clinical and health services research and education in the Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse at McLean, is nationally recognized for her research on substance use disorders, particularly women’s treatment and health services research.
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Pier Paolo Pandolfi, George C. Reisman Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and chief of the Division of Genetics at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, was named director of the Cancer Center and the new Cancer Research Institute at Beth Israel Deaconess.
Pandolfi, the 2011 recipient of the prestigious Pezcoller Foundation-AACR (American Association for Cancer Research) International Award for Cancer Research, is credited with curing acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL), a once-deadly form of leukemia, and is at the center of some of the most promising breakthroughs in the race to prevent, treat and cure cancer.
Pandolfi joined the Beth Israel faculty in 2007 from the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. In his new role, Pandolfi will work along with the director of Beth Israel’s Leon V. & Marilyn L. Rosenberg Clinical Cancer Center to promote excellence in all aspects of cancer care. At Beth Israel, multidisciplinary teams offer 21 specialty patient-care programs, such as those focusing on breast cancer, prostate cancer and biologic therapy.
Pandolfi’s 1998 discovery of the genes that cause acute promyelocytic leukemia and subsequent work on mouse models of APL to develop effective combinatorial targeted treatments resulted in a cure for virtually all patients with this aggressive blood cancer.
Most recently, Pandolfi’s revolutionary work has revealed that non-coding RNAs regulate basic biological processes such as growth and tumorigenesis, thus dispelling long-held beliefs that non-protein coding genes in the human genome were “junk.” This discovery has already sparked the development of new targeted drugs to treat disease in patients.
In 2010, Beth Israel’s cancer program was the only one in Massachusetts, and one of only 34 in the country, to receive the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons.
By ANGELA ALBERTI
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About Harvard Medical School (HMS)
Driving Change. Building Momentum. Making History.
“Since 1872, Harvard Medical School has been the incubator of bold ideas—a place where extraordinary people advance education, science and health care with unrelenting passion.
Whether training tomorrow’s doctors and scientists, decoding the fundamental nature of life, advancing patient care or improving health delivery systems around the world, we are never at rest. Allied with some of the world’s best hospitals, research institutes and a University synonymous with excellence, the School’s mission remains as ambitious as it is honorable: to alleviate human suffering caused by disease.”
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About Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)
Harvard School of Public Health is dedicated to advancing the public’s health through learning, discovery and communication. More than 400 faculty members are engaged in teaching and training the 1,000-plus student body in a broad spectrum of disciplines crucial to the health and well being of individuals and populations around the world. Programs and projects range from the molecular biology of AIDS vaccines to the epidemiology of cancer; from risk analysis to violence prevention; from maternal and children’s health to quality of care measurement; from health care management to international health and human rights.
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About Harvard University.
Established in 1636, Harvard is the oldest institution of higher education in the United States. The University, which is based in Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts, has an enrollment of over 20,000 degree candidates, including undergraduate, graduate, and professional students. Harvard has more than 360,000 alumni around the world.
Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders in many disciplines who make a difference globally. Harvard faculty are engaged with teaching and research to push the boundaries of human knowledge. For students who are excited to investigate the biggest issues of the 21st century, Harvard offers an unparalleled student experience and a generous financial aid program, with over $160 million awarded to more than 60% of our undergraduate students. The University has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a truly global education.
‘Universities nurture the hopes of the world: in solving challenges that cross borders; in unlocking and harnessing new knowledge; in building cultural and political understanding; and in modeling environments that promote dialogue and debate… The ideal and breadth of liberal education that embraces the humanities and arts as well as the social and natural sciences is at the core of Harvard’s philosophy. ’/ Drew Gilpin Faust
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