Of Note
Cagri Besirli, an M.D./Ph.D. candidate, received the 2006 Dr. Philip Needleman Pharmacology Prize, which is awarded to a graduating student for outstanding achievements in pharmacology. Kathryn Moynihan and Suzanne Wahrle, both doctoral candidates, were co-recipients of the 2006 Jakschik Award, which is given to an outstanding female graduate student in her final year of doctoral research whose work is focused on metabolic regulation…
Jean Schaffer, M.D., associate professor of molecular biology and pharmacology and of medicine, was one of only 10 physician-scientists nationwide to receive the Clinical Scientists Award in Translational Research from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. The five-year, $750,000 award will support her work on understanding how diabetes contributes to heart failure.