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Researcher wins memorial award
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Laurie H. Glimcher, MD, dean of Weill Cornell Medical College and provost for medical affairs at Cornell University, has been named the winner of the 2012 Ernst W. Bertner Memorial Award.
The award, presented by The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, recognizes recipients’ contributions to cancer research.
Glimcher’s research has helped improve the understanding of the human immune system and how to manipulate it to better fight cancer.
Laurie H. Glimcher
“I am honored to receive this prestigious cancer research award from the MD Anderson Cancer Center,” Glimcher said in a press release. “My field of cytokine and inflammation research holds much promise for better understanding immune responses underlying malignant diseases. I am so proud to be a part of the discoveries in cancer immunology over the last few decades that have played a pivotal role in our progress against devastating cancers, and toward discovery of innovative cancer therapies to halt this disease in its tracks.”
Glimcher’s primary research specialty is cytokine-specific lymphocyte subtypes. Her research interests include the biochemical and genetic approaches that elucidate the molecular pathways that regulate cell development and activation of lymphocyte subtypes such as CD4 T helper.