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The cancer leaders of tomorrow
2 minute read | Published April 16, 2014
Medically Reviewed | Last reviewed by an MD Anderson Cancer Center medical professional on April 16, 2014
While many times, the achievements of senior faculty members receive the greatest attention, MD Anderson is also taking steps to highlight the important work of junior faculty. Earlier this month, MD Anderson honored 16 promising young scientists and physicians with the first R. Lee Clark Fellow award. The award was established to recognize outstanding work by junior faculty members and to help support their future efforts.
The program is named in honor of MD Anderson’s first full-time director and president, Dr. R. Lee Clark, who served from 1946 to 1978.
The awards are being given to three groups of MD Anderson faculty members: those with a clinical (health care focus), those with a clinical and research focus (physician-scientists), and those with a scientific focus (scientists).
A distinguished panel of experts selected the winners based on their early career accomplishments and their innovative cancer research plans. In addition to the honor, each recipient receives $100,000 to fund their research over the next one to two years. The following is a list of all of the 2014 R. Lee Clark Fellows: Clinical Innovator Winners
- Courtney DiNardo, M.D., assistant professor, Leukemia
- Steven Lin, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor, Radiation Oncology
- Simrit Parmar, M.D., assistant professor, Stem Cell Transplant and Cellular Therapy
- Kathleen Schmeler, M.D., associate professor, Gynecologic Oncology and Reproductive Medicine
- Jason Westin, M.D., assistant professor, Lymphoma and Myeloma
- Lauren Byers, M.D., assistant professor, Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology
- Don Gibbons, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor, Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology
- Elizabeth Mittendorf, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor, Surgical Oncology
- Samuel Shelburne, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor, Infectious Diseases
- Jichao Chen, Ph.D., assistant professor, Pulmonary Medicine
- Francesca Cole, Ph.D., assistant professor, Molecular Carcinogenesis
- Michael Galko, Ph.D., associate professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Han Liang, Ph.D., assistant professor, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
- Hui-Kuan Lin, Ph.D., associate professor, Molecular and Cellular Oncology
- Li Ma, Ph.D., assistant professor, Experimental Radiation Oncology
- Xiaobing Shi, Ph.D., assistant professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology