May 29, 2009
Initiated in 2002, this award is presented annually to fellows within the Department of Medicine who have presented outstanding research.
2009 Winners
Winner
Thangamani Muthukumar, M.D.
Division: Nephrology
"A Molecular Link between Acute Rejection and Chronic Allograft Injury: Differential Expression of BMP7 and TGFß1 during Acute Rejection of Human Renal Allografts"
Runners-Up
Alka Mallik, M.D.
Division: Hematology & Medical Oncology
"Combinatorial Targeting of the Oncogenes BCL2 and BCL6 Yields Synergistic Growth Inhibition of Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma"
Dana Orange, M.D.
Division: Rheumatology
"Using FK506-treated Dendritic Cells to Skew Antigen Presentation Toward Tolerance"