Awards & Grants

Martin Prize Recipients

Martin Prize Recipients

2024


Steven Atlas, MD Associate Professor, Department of Medicine *A Multilevel Primary Care Intervention to Improve the Follow-up of Overdue Abnormal Cancer Screening Tests: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial*	Chana Sacks, MD, MPH Instructor, Department of Medicine, Co-Director, Center for Gun Violence Prevention *Firearm injuries in children and adolescents: health and economic consequences among survivors and family members*

2024

Harrison Brand, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology, Surgery, Center for Genomic Medicine

High-Resolution and Non-Invasive Fetal Exome Screening

Michael Talkowski, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Neurology, Director, Center for Genomic Medicine

Desmond and Ann Heathwood MGH Research Scholar

High-Resolution and Non-Invasive Fetal Exome Screening

2024


Esther Rheinbay, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Cancer Center *Loss of chromosome Y in primary tumors*	David D'Alessandro, MD Associate Professor, Department of Surgery *Transplantation Outcomes with Donor Hearts after Circulatory Death*

2023


Ruanne Barnabas, MBChB, MSc, DPhil Professor, Department of Medicine, Chief, Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital *Efficacy of Single-Dose Human Papillomavirus Vaccination among Young African Women*

2023


Russell Jenkins, MD, PhD Department of Medicine, Hematology-Oncology, Cancer Center Targeting TBK1 to Overcome Resistance to Cancer Immunotherapy	Marcela Maus, MD, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Cancer Center Distinct cellular dynamics associated with response to CAR-T therapy for refractory B cell lymphoma

2022


Jacqueline Seiglie, MD, MSc Medicine Diabetes Unit Body-mass index and diabetes risk in 57 low- and middle income countries: A cross-sectional study of nationally representative, individual-level data in 685 616 adults

2022


Nir Hacohen, PhD Cancer Center Spatially organized multicellular immune hubs in human colorectal cancer	Genevieve Boland, MD, PhD Surgery Evolution of delayed resistance to immunotherapy in a melanoma responder

2021


Martin Aryee, PhD Pathology Large-Scale Topological Changes Restrain Malignant Progression in Colorectal Cancer	Sabrina Paganoni, MD, PhD Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Trial of Sodium Phenylbutyrate-Taurursodiol for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

2020

Thorsten Mempel, MD, PhD Medicine Rheum, Allergy, and Immunology Targeting the CBM complex causes Treg cells to prime tumours for immune checkpoint therapy	Matthias Nahrendorf, MD, PhD Radiology Center for Systems Biology Exercise reduces inflammatory cell production and cardiovascular inflammation via instruction of hematopoietic progenitor cells

2019

Robert Anthony, PhD

Medicine

Rheum, Allergy, and Immunology

Engineered Sialylation of Pathogenic Antibodies In Vivo Attenuates Autoimmune Disease

Tanuja Chitnis, MD

Pediatric Service

Trial of Fingolimod versus Interferon Beta-1a in Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis

2018

Florian S. Eichler, MD

Department of Neurology

Center for Genomic Medicine

Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Gene Therapy for Cerebral Adrenoleukodystrophy

Miguel N. Rivera, MD

Department of Pathology

Cancer Center

Cancer-Specific Retargeting of BAF Complexes by a Prion-like Domain

2017

Alexander Soukas, MD, PhD
Department of Medicine, Endocrine Division, Diabetes Unit
Center for Genomic Medicine

"An Ancient, Unified Mechanism for Metformin Growth Inhibition in C. elegans and Cancer"

Daniel MacArthur, PhD
Department of Medicine, Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit
Center for Genomic Medicine

"Analysis of protein-coding genetic variation in 60,706 humans"

2016

Andrew T. Chan, MD
Medicine
Gastrointestinal Unit

"Association of aspirin and NSAID use with risk of colorectal cancer according to genetic variants"

Filip K. Swirski, PhD
Radiology
Center for Systems Biology

"Interleukin-3 amplifies acute inflammation and is a potential therapeutic target in sepsis"

2015

Shyamala Maheswaran, PhD Center for Cancer Research "Targeting Cancer Metastasis Through Circulating Tumor Cells"	Sek Kathiresan, MD Corrigan Minehan Heart Center "Leveraging Human Knockouts to Understand Wellness and Disease"

2014

Jayaraj Rajagopal, MD Center for Regenerative Medicine "Dedifferentiation of committed epithelial cells into stem cells in vivo."	Stephanie Seminara, MD Reproductive Endocrine Unit "Ataxia, dementia, and hypogonadotropism caused by disordered ubiquitination"

2013

Leigh Hochberg, MD, PhD Department of Neurology "Reach and grasp by people with tetraplegia using a neurally controlled robotic arm". Nature: 2012;485:372-7.	Michael Talkowski, PhD Center for Human Genetic Research "Sequencing Chromosomal Abnormalities Reveals Neurodevelopmental Loci that Confer Risk across Diagnostic Boundaries", Cell 2012 Apr.27: 149(3):525-37.

2012

Bradley Bernstein, MD, PhD Department of Pathology	Jose Baselga, MD, PhD Division of Hematology and Oncology

2011

Vamsi Mootha, MD Molecular Biology	Eunice Kwak, MD, PhD MGH Cancer Center

2010

Nir Hacohen, PhD Rheumatology Unit	Scott Plotkin, MD, PhD Department of Neurology

2009

Sylvie Breton, PhD Membrane Biology	David Sachs, MD Transplant Surgery