Ofer Zimmerman, MD, a clinical fellow in the Department of Medicine at the School of Medicine, received a $100,000 Physician Scientist Fellowship award from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. He will be working in the laboratory of Michael Diamond, MD, PhD, the Herbert S. Gasser Professor of Medicine, to study the role of variations in the gene MXRA8 in infection with chikungunya virus, which can cause chronic arthritis.
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T.S. Park, professor of neurosurgery, 77
Bill Smith, former associate vice chancellor, 80
Richard J. Walter, professor emeritus in Arts & Sciences, 85