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Honors and awards for U-M Cancer Center faculty

Date Visible: 
05/18/2016 - 10:15am

Here are some of the recent awards and honors that our University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center faculty have received:

awardees

A team of Rogel Cancer Center researchers received a $900,000 Melanoma Research Alliance Team Science Award. The interdisciplinary team includes David Lombard, M.D., Ph.D.; Robert Kennedy, Ph.D.; Costas Lyssiotis, Ph.D.; and Nouri Neamati, Ph.D. Lombard and Lyssiotis will collaborate to understand the role of SIRT5 in regulating melanoma metabolism. Kennedy and Neamati will work to develop and optimize SIRT5 inhibitors.

strong>Elise Demitrack, Ph.D., received a $150,000 career development award from Debbie’s Dream Foundation and AACR for gastric cancer research.

David B. Lombard, M.D., Ph.D., was selected for membership to the American Society for Clinical Investigation, an honor society pf physician-scientists.

Daniel Wahl, M.D., Ph.D., received a Young Investigator Award from the Conquer Cancer Foundation and ASCO. The award provides funding to promising investigators transitioning from a fellowship program to a faculty appointment.

Sriram Venneti, M.D., Ph.D., received funding from the Matthew Larson Foundation to look at metabolism in pediatric gliobastomas.