June 21, 2018
Initiated in 2002, the award is given to fellows within the Weill Department of Medicine who have performed outstanding research. This year's finalists were presented at Medicine Grand Rounds on June 20.
Winner
Charles Kyrlakos Vorkas, M.D.
Infectious Diseases Fellow
Innate T cell responses to early Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection are defined by differential responses of MAIT and γδ T cell subsets
First Runner-Up
Ghaith Abu-Zeinah, M.D.
Hematology and Oncology Fellow
The Clonal Architecture of Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (MPNs) Predicts Clinical Phenotype
Second Runner-Up
Marissa D. Rybstein, M.D.
Hematology and Oncology Fellow
The Role of Autophagy in Anti-Tumor Immunity
L to R: Drs. Anthony Hollenberg, Ghaith Abu-Zeinah, Marissa Rybstein, Charles Kyriakos Vorkas