Award Recipients 2024

To be honored at the 2024 Celebration of Science

Martin Prize in Clinical Research 2024 

  • Michael Talkowski, PhD and Harrison Brand, PhD (Associate Professor of Neurology/Center for Genomic Medicine; Assistant Professor, Neurology/CGM) -  High-Resolution and Non-Invasive Fetal Exome Screening (NEJM)
  • David D'Alessandro, MD (Associate Professor, Surgery) - Transplantation Outcomes with Donor Hearts after Circulatory Death (NEJM)

 

Martin Prize in Fundamental Research 2024 

  • Esther Rheinbay, PhD, (Assistant Professor of Medicine/Cancer Center) - Loss of chromosome Y in primary tumors  (Cell)

 

Martin Prize in Population Health Sciences Research 2024 

  • Steven Atlas, MD, MPH (Associate Professor of Medicine/General Internal Medicine) - A Multilevel Primary Care Intervention to Improve the Follow-up of Overdue Abnormal Cancer Screening Tests: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial (JAMA)
  • Chana Sacks, MD (Assistant Professor of Medicine/MGH Center for Gun Violence Prevention) -  Firearm injuries in children and adolescents: health and economic consequences among survivors and family members (Health Affairs)

 

Goodman Fellowship 2024

  • Liron Bar-Peled PhD (Associate Professor of Medicine/Cancer Center)

 

2024 MGH Research Scholars

Will be announced at the 2024 Celebration of Science (Wednesday, April 3 at 2:00pm)

 

2024 Celebration of Science Award

  • Priscilla Brastianos, MD (Associate Professor, Medicine/Cancer Center) BRAF-MEK Inhibition in Newly Diagnosed Papillary Craniopharyngiomas (NEJM)
  • Tatsuo Kawai, MD, PhD (Professor of Surgery) Design and testing of a humanized porcine donor for xenotransplantation (Nature)
  • Tanayott Thaweethai, PhD and Andrea Foulkes, ScD (Instructor of Medicine/Biostatistics; Professor of Medcine/Biostatistics) Development of a definition of postacute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (JAMA)
  • Shiaulou Yuan, PhD (Assistant Professor of Medicine/Cardiology) Cilia function as calcium-mediated mechanosensors that instruct left-right asymmetry (Science)

 

Claflin 2024 Recipients

  • Leigh Anne Dageforde, MD, MPH (Assistant Professor, Surgery/Transplant Surgery)
  • Emily Lau, MD (Assistant Professor, Medicine/Cardiology)
  • Jessica Lin, MD (Assistant Professor, Medicine/Cancer Center)
  • Julie Miller, MD, PhD (Assistant Professor, Neurology/Hem-Onc/Cancer Center)
  • Aderonke Pederson, MD (Assistant Professor, Psychiatry)
  • Davida Schiff, MD, MSc (Assistant Professor, Pediatric Service)
  • Lydia Shook, MD (Assistant Professor, Ob/Gyn Service)
  • Wei Zhou, PhD (Instructor, Psychiatry/Center for Genomic Medicine)

 

Physician and/or Scientist Development Award 2024 Recipients

  • Kemar Brown, MD (Clinical Research Fellow, Medicine/Cardiology)
  • Ivan Coto Hernandez, PhD (Instructor, Radiology/Martinos Center)
  • Jacqueline Maya, MD (Instructor, Pediatric Service)
  • Aderonke Pederson, MD (Assistant Professor, Psychiatry)
  • Liliana Ramirez Gomez, MD (Instructor, Neurology)