December 01, 2012
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Researcher receives achievement award

Levi Garraway, MD, PhD 

Levi Garraway

Levi Garraway, MD, PhD, received the 19th annual Herbert and Maxine Block Memorial Lectureship Award for Achievement in Cancer.

The award is presented each year to a renowned cancer researcher who is invited to The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center — Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute to accept the award and deliver the Block Lecture.

Garraway, an associate professor of medicine in the department of medical oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, leads an investigative team in cancer genomics at Dana-Farber and the Broad Institute. He also is co-leader of the cancer genetics program at Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center. His research efforts have focused on cancer genomics, drug resistance and personalized cancer medicine.

He was inducted into the American Society for Clinical Investigation in 2009.