Marian Hannan, HMS professor of medicine at Hebrew SeniorLife, has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the American College of Rheumatology (ACR). The award recognizes a current or former member of ARP whose career has demonstrated a sustained and lasting contribution to the field of rheumatology and rheumatology health professionals.
Hannan’s research focuses on osteoarthritis, foot biomechanics, fractures, and osteoporosis.
Hannan was presented the award at the ACR’s annual meeting in November.
Six HMS researchers have had projects approved to receive funding from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI).
PCORI is an independent, nonprofit organization authorized by Congress in 2010. Its mission is to fund research that will provide patients, their caregivers, and clinicians with the evidence-based information needed to make better informed healthcare decisions.
The HMS researchers whose projects will receive PCORI funding support are:
Christopher Hartnick, HMS professor of otolaryngology head and neck surgery at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Sharon Inouye, HMS professor of medicine at Hebrew Rehabilitation Center
Randi Schuster, HMS assistant professor of psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital
Karen Sepucha, HMS assistant professor of medicine at Mass General
Richard Wyss, HMS assistant professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Jose Zubizarreta, professor of health care policy in the Blavatnik Institute at HMS
Jenny Lu, a student in the Harvard/MIT MD-PhD Program, has been awarded the Nemko Prize in Cellular or Molecular Neuroscience by the Society for Neuroscience.
The Nemko Prize recognizes a young neuroscientist’s outstanding PhD thesis advancing our understanding of molecular, genetic, or cellular mechanisms underlying higher brain function and cognition.
Lu was recognized for her work revealing dynamic neurobiological details of navigation. Lu’s thesis examined how navigation information is encoded and processed in the brains of flies. This work established the first cellular mechanism of how the brain transforms vector-based information from body- to world-centric coordinate frames.
Evangelos Gragoudas, the HMS Charles Edward Whitten Distinguished Professor of Opthalmology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, has been inducted into the Academy of Athens as a Corresponding Member. Established in 1926, the Academy is Greece's national academy and the highest research establishment in the country. The Academy aims to cultivate and advance the sciences, humanities, and fine arts.
Gragoudas was recognized for his work on the diagnosis and management of retinal diseases and intraocular tumors. His early translational work focused on uveal melanoma, for which he developed the use of proton beam irradiation, a treatment method that has been used in tens of thousands of patients to date as a safe alternative to enucleation.
Gragoudas was inducted at a special Academy session in October in Athens.
