This award is presented annually to members of the Department of Medicine below the rank of professor who perform on outstanding levels in the areas of clinical and/or basic biomedical research. The award has been generously supported by the Michael Wolk Foundation.
2009 Winners
Winner
Geoffrey W. Abbott, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Pharmacology in Medicine
Division: Cardiology
"The Curious Case of the Bald, Dwarf Mice with Cardiac Hypertrophy"
Runners-Up
David J. Christini, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering in Medicine
Division: Cardiology
"Mechanism of Subcellular Alternans in Cardiac Myocytes: A Combined Experimental and Mathematical Modeling Study"
Ari M. Melnick, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Division: Hematology & Medical Oncology
"Therapeutic Targeting of the BCL6 Oncogene"